Unfortunately, I've never figured out how to reproduce this!! That drives me *nuts* ... I've *never* actually seen the bad characters get injected, I'll just notice them a few seconds later. Here is the batch file that had the problem most recently. I had inserted the two colons before the 'cd' line, then noticed the corrupted characters a few seconds later... I know that this doesn't give you much to go on, but I've just never been able to actually catch it happening... I also don't know exactly what keys I touched around that time... :-/
@echo off ::Change the path variables below as per your folder structure :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::set PLUTO=C:\pluto ::Change this COM Port value to the COM port of your Pluto Debug board set PLUTO_COM_PORT=49 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: if %PLUTO_COM_PORT% == 0 (echo COM Port Error! Please edit this file in any text editor and change the value of PLUTO_COM_PORT=0 on Line#6 to the COM port number of Pluto Debug board pause exit ) ::cd %PLUTO%\tools bdaddr.exe start "" autoit_command.bat start "" dbg_img.cmd vc_reader_test.elf echo Halt DPU pause start "" run_img.cmd vc_reader_test.elf echo Ready to Flash... pause fw2flash %PLUTO_COM_PORT% -- <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?4,65340,65584> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com