Validation problem

Papa3 wrote:

high-powered XP laptop I figured I'd be all set. However, it
looks like I'm screwed.
2. Would love to boot DOS from a floppy, except that the floppy drive
is SOOO 1990's; ie. there isn't one on this machine.

3. Not sure that I have the energy to create a DOS partition on my
hard-drive

How about a bootable CD with DOS creating a ram drive? Nero will write
a bootable CD. Then you just need to get the file off the ram drive.
There are some DOS to USB methods and drivers out there (try
bootdisk.com) that might talk to a USB pen drive or you could run DOS
network drivers and send it to another machine.

(I hope this post gets out, it's my first in a new Mozilla Thunderbird
installation)
Todd

Thanks to all. I opted for plan C - find someone running an older NT
machine. Turns out we have a bunch of old, worthless laptops in the
office. I'm picking one up on Monday.

Regards,

P3

Hi,

I haven't been following every post in this thread so I may be off base, but
if you want to download IGC approved flight logs from a Volkslogger, why not
use the StrePla software that came with the Volkslogger. SeeYou should be
able to download valid flight logs also. There is no need for a DOS
program.

Paul Remde
Cumulus Soaring, Inc.
http://www.cumulus-soaring.com

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Thanks to all. I opted for plan C - find someone running an older NT
machine. Turns out we have a bunch of old, worthless laptops in the
office. I'm picking one up on Monday.

Regards,

P3

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In article 7wpvd.494954$wV.355049@attbi_s54, Paul Remde
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Hi,

I haven't been following every post in this thread so I may be off base, but
if you want to download IGC approved flight logs from a Volkslogger, why not
use the StrePla software that came with the Volkslogger. SeeYou should be
able to download valid flight logs also. There is no need for a DOS
program.

Paul Remde

Hi Paul,

The issue was one of validating a file previously downloaded.

While Strepla may be able to do this, it's not much help to a third
party (such as competition organisers etc.) if they have to go and buy a
copy. Asking the pilot to supply a copy would involve copyright theft,
so is not an answer.

The IGC Flight Recorder specification requires manufacturers to supply
specific freeware. In this instance, a DLL which can be used with the
shell program available free from the IGC website, and in the future
with any third party software.

All manufacturers were required to supply this by 1st July 2004 and yet
here we are in December and the only manufacturer that has complied gave
up manufacturing Flight Recorders some time ago.

Tim Newport-Peace

"Indecision is the Key to Flexibility."

Hi Paul,

The issue was one of validating a file previously downloaded.

While Strepla may be able to do this, it's not much help to a third
party (such as competition organisers etc.) if they have to go and
buy a
copy. Asking the pilot to supply a copy would involve copyright
theft,
so is not an answer.



I want to thank Tim for several offline communications helping to work
around this problem. However, it has raised another question - do
Strepla and SeeYou currently have the source code for the VALI
(checksum) algorithms used by the manufacturers? Or, to put it another
way, if I download from the logger using application a (e.g. Cambridge
download utility) which creates the G-Record, can I then Validate using
another third party's application? Obviously, that would be the goal
of supplying the DLLs, but I'm not clear on whether that is currently
the case...

P3

Just to clarify, I did RTFM, at least the online Help from SeeYou. It
seems to imply that the only Validation routine it has is one for "G
Records created by SeeYou" and those available from G7toWin for Garmin
devices. That would lead me to believe that it doesn't know to call
the DLLs for other manufacturers, though I'm sure that was what the IGC
was originally hoping by specifying the naming convention for these
DLLs (ie. "if header record contains FR manufacturer code of VL, then
call DLL VLxxx-gcs ... or whatever the precise syntax is). I'm just
wondering if any of the uber-programs like Strepla and SeeYou actually
do this.

Since I do validations after the fact (ie. I'm the State Record Keeper,
so I wasn't there when the files were first downloaded), this problem
is becoming a real headache.

P3