Karen, We have run into a similar problem when setting up WEP keys. We have to type the key in notepad, and use copy/paste to enter it.
Dennis ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 8:47 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Windows messes up my -a Found a way around this, so it isn't critical. But just really curious if this happens to anyone else. On my really big client, workstations are all XP, with weekly automatic updates. No clue what the network OS is, except I remember them changing to Active Directory a year or so ago. When you use the wizard or manually create an RBase icon, and you want to use the -a switch, something weird happens. If you type the hyphen, then type the a, then press the spacebar -- watch carefully. My hyphen changes from a little hyphen to something much bigger. Kinda like how Word changes some of the characters that you type. I cannot get a little hyphen to "stick". And when you run the icon, you get a "file not found" message and it tries to start RBase as a typical setup, which of course doesn't work. What I was able to do is to copy a much older shortcut still on the desktop. This one still must have had the normal hyphen in it. But carefully modifying it, without going near the -a switch, it still works. Any clue how I get Windows to STOP changing my hyphen to something else? Karen
