Lee, let me check on all.
Well, welcome to the NU club :-) 73, Andreas, N6NU On Dec 25, 2012, at 12:47 PM, Lee Hallin wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > Some questions: > > 1) Do you get the error when invoking DX4WIN or after you select a log file? > > 2) If #1 is at invocation, then rename the log file it is trying to open to > something else; with a .DXL extension. > Then try invoking DX4WIN again. It may (will probably) give an error > saying it can't find the [most recently used] log file. Specify a new log > file name and see if it opens. If it does then I would say the rename'd log > file is corrupt some how. If so, send me (not the list) an email and we can > go from there. > > 3) If #2 did not enable you to open DX4WIN, it sounds like it may be a DX4WIN > installation issue. Perhaps re-install DX4WIN but specify a DIFFERENT > directory to have it install to. Then invoke DX4WIN from that location and > see what happens. > > 4) If #3 works (you can run DX4WIN from the new location), try copying the > "bad" .DXL file from the old location to the "SAVE" directory under the new > DX4WIN home. Then try to open it with the new DX4WIN. If it opens OK, then > the "bad" .DXL is not bad; something in the original DX4WIN is not right. > If the "bad" file gives the same error as the original DX4WIN, then it > appears to me that the "bad" .DXL file got corrupted some how. > > I am not a DX4WIN guru so others may have better ideas. > > 73, Lee N7NU > > P.S. I like your call :-) > > >>> Andreas Junge <andr...@n6nu.org> 12/23/2012 6:18 AM >>> > > I need help from the brain trust of this group :-) > > I am trying to help out my neighbor W6OAT. He ran into the following: > > " Recently, when I open the program, I get a message saying "An exception > occurred! Fixed column count must be less than column count." I can't find > any reference to column count anywhere in the DX4WIN users manual. Has > anybody else encountered this problem and do you know how to fix it?" > > Could this be a problem with a corrupted log file? > > 73, > > Andreas, N6NU > Redwood City, CA > ______________________________________________________________ > DX4WIN mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > !SIG:50d712db110666229330069! > ______________________________________________________________ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html