How To Save A File With WIN97?

[Spankymedic7]

Hi All,

Well, those that have followed my other thread regarding programming my new PRO-164, here's another related question. Now that I've programmed my scanner (and it works better than I had ever hoped), I want to SAVE the file, in the event I need to re-load/make changes in the future. I did this, and it saved the file as a ".p97" file. I can't access this file, as a prompt shows, asking mw what program I'd like to open this file with.

Any ideas? I don't want to close WIN97 for fear of losing the work I've done.

As always, thank you all for your help.

 

[TES]

In Win97 try: Configuration>Misc...>P97 File Associate

If you have a .p97 saved on your computer it's unlikely you'll lose anything.

 

[Spankymedic7]

OK, I followed your instructions, but when I click on it, nothing happens. Is there anything I'm missing?

 

[RolnCode3]

Instead of clicking on the file, if you open Win97 and then go to File-> Open File (or something like that - I don't have Win97 on this computer), navigate to the file and open it from within Win97.

 

[Spankymedic7]

Disregard my last message, I was able to open the file after following your instructions.

THANKS!!!

 

[TES]

The following from the Win97 Help File may be of interest to you:

From the Configuration menu, you can select the following:

Misc… This item displays the “miscellaneous preferences” dialog box. That box allows you to control the following options:

o Tell Win97 to allow you to enter more than 16 characters in the various alpha tag fields. This has no effect on the fact that exactly 16 characters will be saved in the file and sent to the radio. It’s merely here so that you can type new text into a tag field that is already “full”. When the file is saved or the data sent to the radio, all alpha tags will be truncated (or padded with spaces) so that they are 16 characters long. Note: The “grids” (SAME codes, Channels, Talk Group IDs) will be adjusted to 16 characters as soon as the current alpha tag’s entry is complete. The other tags (priority channel, welcome display, etc.) will be adjusted when their respective edit boxes “lose focus” – this happens when you click on another data entry field, press TAB, go to another page, etc..

The 16-character requirement is a function of the radio. Its memory map has, for each alpha tag, 16 bytes of space. When the radio decides that it will display a tag, it reads exactly 16 bytes from its memory and displays them on the LCD.

o Associate P97 files with the currently-running version of Win97. If you click this button, your Windows registry will be updated so that future double-clicks on P97 files (e.g. from Windows Explorer) will launch Win97 and open the file. This feature is added as an explicit button press because a) there’s no “installation” program for Win97 that would normally associate files and b) if you move Win97 to new folder, clicking this button will update the registry to point to the new Win97 location.

 

[Spankymedic7]

Hmmm....very interesting.