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Re: [RTTY] The trailing blank or 2

To: "William Turner" <dezrat1242@wildblue.net>, <rtty@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] The trailing blank or 2
From: "Gary AL9A" <al9a@mtaonline.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:22:57 -0900
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WriteLog has no facility to strip out excess CRs on a given line, but then the way its receive window works it doesn’t have to. In WL the received text comes in on a horizontal red line. As the text fills up the red line, or it receives a CR, it drops down one space and continues printing on a new line. The previously received text does not scroll up the screen, rather the receiving line scrolls down the screen.

All the received text stays in place until the red line hits the bottom of the window. At that point it jumps back up to the first line in the window to begin receiving there. All the other text stays in place on the window until it is eventually overwritten by the red receive line moving down the screen. So extra CRs in someone's macro do not cause the text to move up the screen a line, but do cause the red line to move more frequently. This usually leaves plenty of time to click on the call and the exchange without having to chase the text line around.

73,
Gary AL9A

-----Original Message----- From: William Turner
Sent: January 27, 2014 6:00 PM
To: rtty@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] The trailing blank or 2

If you're using N1MM, there is a check-box option to Remove Excess Line
Feeds. I think that's the wording. It will print one line feed but
strips out any more than that.
But as others pointed out, the best practice at the end of your macro is
just a space or two, no line feeds at all.

Don't know if WriteLog has this or not. Probably does.

73, Bill W6WRT

On 1/27/2014 6:19 PM, Tom Osborne wrote:

Yes - and don't put those {enter}, or {CR} in there either. It's frustrating to start to click on your call and it jumps up the display. Same with the exchange. 73
Tom W7WHY

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