Some historical background on the report and an unfortunate discovery.... Maybe a decade ago I wrote a DOS utillity that printed out 2 styles of reports from DXBase 2.0 and 3.0 and released them to public domain. They might still be found on some old HamCall CDROMS.
One generated a 2 column report, the other a 3 column report that required the printer (HP laserjet at the time) be manually put into a 132 column, 77 lines per page mode before sending the report to the printer. The 2 column report was used as input to a DOS utility that I did not write called "Pamphlet.com". It would print out your DXCC "needs" lists in a multi-page 5.5x8 inch pamphlet to hand out to your friends. The 3 column was the best. If you sent it to your printer in compressed text and manually inserted a single sheet of paper in the printer, flipping it over once and inverting it a third time, you ended up with a SINGLE sheet of paper that had every DXCC stat including the worked / confirmed totals for modes and bands at the end of the report. I would laminate them and give them out to friends to keep an eye out for new ones so I could get that one-ringer phone call at 3 AM. Sadly...I did not recall the 3 column report when I first approached Joe about doing an updated DXBase 2005 version. I told him how it would fit on a single sheet of paper but all I had to show him at the time was a 2 column printout that I found on one of my old DOS boxes. The DXBase 2005 report is neat but still eats up paper. I appologize profusely to Joe for not discovering this until today!!!! If anyone would like to see the raw text output of the 3 column form, e-mail me directly and I'll attach it to my e-mail back to you. If I get a copy of Crystal Reports for myself perhaps I could get a 3 column DXBase 2005 version worked up using Joe's as a starting point. I cannot thank Joe enough for all the work he put into this custom report!!!!! He's amazing. 73 de Tom K2TA ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Harlem W1EBI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Joseph Glockner'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'DXbase reflector'" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 10:00 PM Subject: RE: [Dxbase] New Report designed by Tom K2TA and made by Joe WA6AXE > Joe, I like this report, but why are the characters in the display and > hard copy both upper and lower case, apparently in a random mix? And > any chance of showing a summary with total W's and C's? > > George W1EBI > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Joseph Glockner > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 4:20 PM > To: DXbase reflector > Subject: [Dxbase] New Report designed by Tom K2TA and made by Joe WA6AXE > > To all on the DXbase Reflector, > > Back in the DOS 2.0 days, Tom K2TA, designed and made a DXCC Checklist > report. He asked if I would generate the same report for the DXbase2005 > program. I have replicated his report and that report is now available > at my website at: > > http://www.qsl.net/wa6axe/K2TA_DXCC_Checklist.html > > > 73 Joe WA6AXE > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] >
