[WriteLog] WL/MMTTY Problem

[Ed Muns]

I've had this happen once in a while, but not often, and not recently.  I've
never worried about it or looked into it.  But, I am curious about what is
going on.

Why are you using two instances of MMTTY?

Ed - P49X (W0YK)

Dick, K7VC, wrote:
> During today's RTTY RU practice, I noticed a problem running two
> instances of MMTTY.  When exiting WL I received an error message that
> MMTTY.INI cannot be updated.  When I again invoke MMTTY, all port
> settings have been set to NONE.
> 
> Why is WL trying to update MMTTY.INI?  What kind of circumstance would
> cause this kind of error?  WRITELOG.INI has the correct path to the
> MMTTY directory and MMTTY operates properly until I exit WL at which
> point the MMTTY ports are set to NONE and I need to reset them.
> 
> Could the two instances of MMTTY be fighting over some resource?  Could
> one instance be trying to update MMTTY.INI while the other instance has
> it open?  Has anyone else experienced difficulties running two instances
> of MMTTY from within WL?