Version 3.14, 31-03-1998

NEW FEATURES

• This file, the other information files and listings can now be printed. Please note the information given in the lower lines of the screens. Capital letter "P" prints the whole file. Small letter "p" prints a range of lines which needs to be identified by the keys F4 and F5. You can scroll the file by means of the arrow keys. Move to the selected print range. Mark the top line of the display as startline for the printout by pressing the F4-key. Now move to the last line of the desired range. The bottom line of the last screen may be marked as last line of the printout by pressing the F5-key. If you now press "p" the marked range will be selected for printing.
• The print spooler operations are now available in all info- and help- files as well as for the list operations. The F6-key calls the spooler as indicated in the instruction line at the bottom of the screens.
• A new keyword file is now available for the dedicated US-County hunter. The file COUNTIES.UIF contains all 3260 US-Counties and is ready for immediate use with TL's powerfull keyword facilities. The keyword notation for this one is: CXXnnn, where
• C stands for Counties,
• XX is the official US-State abreviation,
• nnn is the county number of this state in alphabetical order. The price for this teaser is DM 30,-. By the way: You will find the County name with the help of TL's CALLBOOK support (ALT-F6 fom the logging window). So you just need to have the CALL of the US-station. Isn't that conclusive?
• Don't forget the other available keyword files, (DM 20,- each):
• IOTA The Island On The Air keyword file.
• DOK The German DLD-Award is based on these numbers.
• OBLAST Keyword file for the Russian OBLASTS.
• The size of the QSL label file was increased from 80 to 255 characters ( requested by OK1PD et alies).
• The lengths of the command strings under the basic window cluster hotkeys were extended from 20 to 40 characters ( requested by OE5PX et alies).
• The editor is now available for editing the TNC initialisation strings. Type ALT-E from various windows and select the file to edit. Press T in order to create a new file.
• The `Watch TNC Handshake` toggle mode's status will now be stored permanently by performing any of the 'Save' functions in the setup menues. 'Watch' and 'Nowatch' are therefore not available as startup parameters any longer. This keeps the logics straight.
• ALT-Z is now available as command for toggling the keyboard between normal and morse mode.
• More information is now available in TL from the 98 Flying Horse Callbook CD-ROM. Unfortunately this requires a new version of the driver DOSLOGAC.EXE. This driver originates from the 15th of November 1997 and is part of this update version. You still need to have the driver included in your AUTOEXEC.BAT as described above in version info 3.12 :

  C:\TURBOLOG\DOSLOGAC.EXE 97

  Please note, the "97" has nothing to do with the year but iden- tifies an interrupt. The new driver will read last year's CD-ROM but last year's driver does not read this year's CD-ROM. Unfortunately we received the new driver after 3.13 was just delivered to the subscribers of the automatic update service. Sorry for any inconvenience which might have been happened. We hope that the driver now remains constant for the next editions of the CALLBOOK.
  

• TL has now received a completely new designed interface facility for the control of virtually any transceiver on the market which is suited for rig control. This was a really demanding and time consuming enhancement. It follows our guide line to allow the user to adapt TL to what device soever without needing to ask us for a program(!) change, if a new TNC, printer or rig comes to market. Also it is practically impossible to keep up in changing with the flood of new devices for ham radio applications. Since we do not have access to all rigs currently implemented in TL we have created the following features:
  1. All old rigs are still available.
  2. Despite careful design and testing for a number of rigs we cannot exclude minor troubles. Therefore:
  3. The cat menue under setup includes letter "O" to toggle between old and new interface. The default is on "NEW". In case your rig does not run under the new regime you can switch back to the old facilities. Please drop us a line if you need to do this and describe the results/deficiencies with your rig. After all current rigs run ok under the new software we want to remove the old code in order to regain memory capacity in about one year's time.
  4. If you want to connect a new rig named XYZ to TL's menue list you need to create a file named XYZ.CAT under the subdirecty DEVICES. You need to have the interface documentation for your rig in order to specify the necessary items.

COUNTRY.DAT:

• CQ9, CT9 and CS9 were removed from the list as prefixes for Macau since these prefixes are used in Portugal now.
• ST0 Southern Sudan degraded to "DELETED" as of 01-April-1998. Thus there are now 328 DXCC and 58 DELETED countries.

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