[Dxbase] ADIF "Alleged" Standard

Thu Dec 21 12:09:41 EST 2017

At least in theory, they are up to rev3+ of ADIF, and all NEW versions are supposed to be upward compatible, aka Rev3 should be able to read rev 2 and 1, if the devs do their job anyway (aka properly support the standard)
The issues are 
1)are you feeding a newer version of the spec to a program that expects an older version 
2)how good a job did the developer do of implementing the standard. That isn't the STANDARDS fault, but the fault of the developer (said as a developer)
Done RIGHT, the developers should say "we import ADIF up to version X", and they SHOULD be able to export in say ADIF1, 2 and 3, as requested, in case who you are sending to can't understand say ADIF 3
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73 de KG2V
Charlie
> On Dec 21, 2017, at 11:32 AM, Giuseppe Giunta <it9vdq at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
> I had abt 60.000 qso when import To Logger32 And I remember about 100
> errors also. most were Counties errors because DXBASE had different names.
> editing the BAD.TXT with Notepad and importing the FIXED.TXT everything has
> been solved. Now abt 100.000 qso And happy Logger32 user 😊
> Giù IT9VDQ
>> Il 21 Dic 2017 17:08, "Richard Solomon" <dickw1ksz at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>>> I though the ADIF standard
>> was supposed to be just that,
>> a Standard. If you change the
>> Format and don't provide a
>> method to update existing
>> programs, it's no longer a
>> Standard.
>>>> For example, I created an ADIF
>> file from ny DXBase Log. I then
>> imported it into both DX4WIN and
>> Logger32.
>>>> DX4WIN reported 284 "errors"
>> and Logger32 reported 104 "errors".
>>>> Still trying to access the "error" files
>> to see what they report as "errors".
>>>> 73 es HH, Dick, W1KSZ
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