I had a LOG.TMP disappear while testing before SS, but by backing out of
everything and rebooting the computer it miraculously reappeared. Believe
me, I was in a panic. I'm glad it's back, but I have no idea what happened.
Mark, N5OT
----- Original Message -----
From: "VR2BrettGraham" <vr2bg@harts.org.hk>
To: <trlog@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 10:41 PM
Subject: [Trlog] LOG.TMP problem with 6.85
> This has now happened twice - lost the what was
> in LOG.TMP.
>
> I have TR in one directory & files in the other. I
> use batch files to copy those for the contest I'm
> working & also to make a backup of what I had
> saved the time before that.
>
> So I finish working one contest, use batch file
> to save, then another batch file to start another.
> Save that, then switch back or to something else.
>
> During CQ WW SSB I had stopped for the
> evening & did a save, switched everything off,
> then went to bed. In the morning, the edit
> window had reverted to something from some
> point earlier in the contest. Annoying one-off
> I thought at the time & found the lost Qs in
> the recording.
>
> Just now, I changed from day-to-day log to
> day-to-day RTTY log, saving then switching,
> work something, save then switch back. I also
> did some editing to the files, but not the LOG.TMP
> that changed. Nothing I can UNDELETE has
> those last five Qs in it.
>
> LOG.TMP now contains Qs from about two hours
> ago, but has time stamp a few minutes before
> other files - I now can't recall exactly what I did
> when to say if this is DOS time stamp of when
> LOG.TMP first went back in time, or is after I
> restarted TR & found it that way. I like to think it
> is the former.
>
> There was no editing of files during CQ WW SSB.
> LOG.TMP was right when shutting down, wrong
> when firing back up.
>
> This is with DOS 6.22 & QEMM, no caching.
>
> It is like LOG.TMP is being written wrong on exiting
> once in a while, but can only find out after it's too late.
>
> Contest over on all exits now & sorry to who ever I now
> claim is NIL. ;^)
>
> 73, VR2BrettGraham
>
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