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[Dave Cooley]

Hello Dan,

Thursday, February 26, 2009, 10:36:48 AM, you wrote:

>> I am running alpha 3 and .2.10b6 at the same time on the same machine. So
>> far neither has crashed. I am sure they wont like it when someone tries to
>> do a transfer.

> Nope, they won't care about a transfer, but you will want to make sure
> they're running different callsigns (N4DIB and N4DIB-1 or something).

>> Is there a way to run multiple instances on the same machine?
>> When you launch the app it looks to the appdata location for the info and
>> populates both. I can see advantages for being able to have multiple
>> instances.

> There is a way to make them keep their settings separately, which is a
> good idea for testing something really new like 0.3.  If you run the
> program with an argument of "-c" you can tell it where to keep the stuff
> it normally keeps in APPDATA.

> If you create a shortcut on your desktop to D-RATS (by dragging it with
> the right mouse button from the directory you extracted the zip file to
> the desktop), then edit the properties by right clicking.  In the
> "target" box, add something like "-c c:\d-rats-tmp" to the end (not
> including the quotes).  When you start it up, it should think it is W1AW
> again and start keeping its settings separate from your "normal" D-RATS
> instance.


Worked Like a charm Thanks

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 Dave                            mailto:dave at proficia.com