This option (E) in the KB0ZPUTL program is useful when you have made a large
number of contacts, usually over 1000, and have made some changes in the data
file KB0ZP-1.DTA. KB0ZP-1.DTA is one of the files created by the KB0ZPLOG.EXE 
program. It becomes quite tedious to check for dupes again. If you change
the data file, you may have added a dupe and not know it. This option will
redupe the KB0ZP-1.DTA file so that all dupes will be marked and you will not
get any penalties from the contest manager.

When starting the KB0ZPUTL program, you have told the program where your data
file is kept. Now, press E and the reduping starts immedately. The screen will
tell you the contact number it is checking as well as the percentage of the
data that has been checked.

A new file, KB0ZP-3.DTA, will be created and put in the same directory with
KB0ZP-1.DTA. Your original data file will not be destroyed so you will always
have a copy of your original.

Copy the newly created KB0ZP-3.DTA file to a different directory or disk and
change its name to KB0ZP-1.DTA. Now you will have two versions of KB0ZP-1.DTA
so be careful not to mix them up. By putting them on sepearte floppies is a 
good idea. Label each disk so you don't get confused. 

All this copying and changing of names is done by DOS commands, or if you are
using a very friendly Disk Organizer (Menu Program) it can be done there. I
use XTree Gold and find that it is the easiest Disk Organizer around. But, if
you need help in this area please get same. You will learn more about your
computer and enjoy it more.

Now, this new KB0ZP-1.DTA file can be checked out with the "Change Contact
Listing" option. Note that the dupes, if any, have been tagged. Instead of a
contact number on the duplicate contact, it has been replaced with the word
DUPE. All the other information has been kept intact.

That word, DUPE, is also an indicator for all the scoring programs. Those 
contacts will not appear in your totals. So, use this new KB0ZP-1.DTA file
when submitting your reports for awards.

Of course, you can dupe manually, just print out a Dupe Sheet report from the
KB0ZPRPT program. This will be sorted so you can manually go through the list
and like contacts will be next to each other on the list.

Good Contesting


Larry Kebel KB0ZP
PO Box 2010
Sparks, NV 89432