[chirp_devel] Add new Wiki file, consolidate others

[Bernhard Hailer]

Hi Dan / all,

I'd like to add a new file to the Wiki library, and later also to edit / 
consolidate some others. I can already edit; do I need extra privileges 
to add new files or to remove others?

This simple short one, "Running Chirp under Windows" would be added:

    h1. Running CHIRP Under Windows

    {{>toc}}

    Running Chirp under Windows is pretty straight-forward, but it has
    some traps to offer. You can run into a few situations in which a
    little doing is needed before Chirp starts correctly.


    h2. Corrupt Chirp configuration file

    If Chirp just does nothing when you try to start it, then its
    configuration file might have been damaged: Windows 10 has a bad
    habit of corrupting it.
    Solution: Delete the chirp.config file. The next time CHIRP is
    loaded, a new chirp.config file will be created. The chirp.config
    file is kept in the same folder as the debug.log file (it might be
    in C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\CHIRP\chirp.config).


    h2. Non-standard character in program path

    CHIRP won't load when the Windows user account has a special
    character (accented characters, umlauts, characters which aren't in
    the latin alphabet) in it.
    Solution: Put Chirp somewhere into a path which doesn't contain
    special characters.


    h2. You get an "Error opening file for writing: c:\program files
    (x86)\chirp\_ctypes.pyd"

    Solution: Run Chirp with Administrator privileges.



Thanks and 73,
Bernhard AE6YN

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