[Skimmertalk] Two instances of CWskimmer in Win7?

[Jeff AC0C]

Mark,

You may have seen this already, but if not, the AUTOSTART command line 
switch will fire up skimmer in the run mode so you don't have to manually 
click each instance to get it going.

73/jeff/ac0c
www.ac0c.com
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-----Original Message----- 
From: Mark n2qt
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 10:25 PM
To: Bob Wilson, N6TV
Cc: SkimmerTalk Reflector
Subject: Re: [Skimmertalk] Two instances of CWskimmer in Win7?

Yes I had issues with the quotes, but had figured it out after several 
(many) false starts.
After using notepad to get the command line correct, k8nd's suggested method 
was
much quicker.  I ended up with 6 different CWSkimmer's to cover both radios 
(one with
a subrx) and the inversion for 6m, so simple was good.

Mark. N2QT

> On Mar 18, 2015, at 10:30 PM, Bob Wilson, N6TV <n6tv at arrl.net> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Mark n2qt <n2qt.va at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The help file indicates it is possible to specify the location for the
>> ini file on the command line.  I have tried to embed this in the shortcut 
>> for cwskimmer but
>> I can't make it work.
>
> Did you use enough quotes and fully qualify the name?  For example, in the 
> CW Skimmer Shortcut properties, you would have to use (all on one line):
>
> Target: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Afreet\CwSkimmer\CwSkimmer.exe" 
> ini="C:\Users\YourUserid\AppData\Roaming\Afreet\Products\CwSkimmer\CwSkimmer.ini"
>
> Then for a second copy of the shortcut, change the last part to 
> "CwSkimmer2.ini".
>
> I'm not sure if creating separate copies of the executable and creating 
> separate folders, as described by K8ND, is still required.  I think you 
> just need multiple .ini files specified in multiple shortcuts.  However, I 
> did notice that CW Skimmer created or updated other files in the AppData 
> folder when I ran it.  I don't know what's in these small files nor what 
> would happen if you had two skimmers running and they both tried to write 
> to these files.
>
> Snr.dat
> Snr.txt
> Wpm.dat
> Wpm.txt
>
> 73,
> Bob, N6TV
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