[WT-support] default.dta file

[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Clive Whelan
<clive.whelan at btinternet.com>wrote:

> somehow N1MM gets around the problem, and the same file works OK in N+1
> there


Probably N1MM doesn't count slash as a character.  Maybe that's a good
thing, but I'm not sure.


> The only downside is that the window is a tad slow to pop up whether
> there is just one or 500 calls in the file, so clearly it's an overhead.


Well it only displays data after you enter a full callsign, rather than a
partial call, if that's what you are perceiving as "slow."

That would preclude executing a paddle greeting at the front end, but I
> often can't react quickly enough from the .dta file in the partial
> window anyway, so I just fake it by using the name at the end of the
> exchange!


If you put

# VARIABLE $OPNAME

at the top of your .XDT file, you an use $OPNAME at the front of your CW
Messages (Internal CW keyer only) and Win-Test will send the greeting
automatically.

>
> So all's well that ends well. I just wish it were practical to print out
> the manual so I could read it "off-line" and find out about all these
> useful features.


Instead of printing the entire Win-Test reference (a document which was
never designed to be read from cover to cover) just download the .PDF file
from http://docs.win-test.com/pdf/downloads/manual.pdf and then you can use
the Search capability of Adobe Acrobat to more easily find things, or print
selected sections for more casual study.

Note that we (Wiki documenation volunteers including myself, DL6RAI, DL4NER,
and others) haven't had time to add documentation for all of the new V4
features yet, but we're making progress.  In the mean time, just refer to
RELEASE.TXT.

73,
Bob, N6TV
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