On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 at 02:21:16 +0000
alan.kaul@att.net said:
The problem seemed to be the QSO exchange data (5E for
example). WL was looking for this information to be in a category
called <RCVD> but the conversion software did not have such a
category and reported the same info in two places (i. e. "number of
xmtrs," I think called <no_xmtr> in the program's data file, and another
category -- the name of which I forget -- which I believe was the
power classification). It was like sending apples to an orange juice
machine---it didn't work!
As long as the data is in the file, just labelled wrong, you can fix it
yourself. If the data is in a field called <no_xmtr> and you want it to be
in <rcvd>, you just edit the file to change it. ADIF files are ASCII text
files, so you can edit them with any text editor, but for this task you
want one with a global replace function. There's one free with every
version of Windows since Windows 95, called WordPad (don't bother with
Notepad, it's brain-damaged and can't do this job). There's also one free
with every version of DOS since, oh, I don't know, maybe 2.0? and it's
still there in the Windows XP command-line interface. That one's called EDIT.
Make a backup copy of your file in case of finger trouble. Once that's
done, start up WordPad from the Windows start menu. It's probably located
under Accessories. Select the File->Open menu. In the dialog box, at the
bottom is a list box called "Files of type:". Click on the down arrow and
choose "All files (*.*)". Now find the bad ADIF file and click Open. The
file will be displayed on the screen. Select the Edit->Replace... menu
item. You will see two boxes, one labelled "Find what:" and the other
labelled "Replace with:". Put the tag that is in the file, the one that WL
doesn't like (no_xmtr), in the top box, and the tag it wants instead (rcvd)
in the bottom one. Press "Replace all". Select the File->Save menu item,
save the file, and exit from WordPad. Try the import again.
EDIT is actually easier to use, although it doesn't look as nice. Open up a
DOS ("Command Line" in XP) window, change directories until you are in the
one where the file is stored, and just type the word edit followed by the
Enter key. The command to open a file is FIle-> Open, the replace function
is under the Search menu (not Edit), the command to save the file is
File->Save, and you close the program from File->Exit.
73,
Rich VE3IAY
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