Hi John, I stand corrected. I fooled myself because I usually load my programs in a different directory where no spaces exists. thus I was lulled into not learning something before. Thanks for the refresher.
Bill....WB6BNQ John Miles wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On > > Behalf Of WB6BNQ > > Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 3:07 PM > > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Heather Problem.. > > > > Hi Bud, > > > > the /2 should be inside the quotes as you show it. Of course the quotes > are not > > used in the windows environment. That should be /3 if you are wanting to > go to > > port 3. So your command line, used in the ICON or link, should read: > > > > C:\Program Files\Heather\heather.exe /3 > > Actually that's not the case; the quotes are required anytime a pathname > with spaces is used. Otherwise there would be no easy way for the OS to > tell where the filename stops and any command-line parameters begin. If it > weren't for the space in the "Program Files" subdirectory name, the quotes > wouldn't be needed at all. > > So in the case of Heather, yes, you do need the quotes for Windows' benefit, > and you also need a space after the closing quote for Heather's benefit. > > (Pro tip: If you know that your Program Files directory has the short name > progra~1, you could change the shortcut to use > c:\progra~1\heather\heather.exe and dispense with the quotes. This hack is > less straightforward now that 64-bit versions of Windows use "Program Files > (x86)" for legacy 32-bit software like LH. On my system, Heather ends up in > c:\progra~2\heather\heather.exe.) > > -- john, KE5FX > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.