I have been using the loopback driver on Windows 10. It had been running OK in older versions up to 4.2.8p9. Now in 4.2.8p10 it appears that junk characters are appended to the driver name when it is called. The junk characters are different each time NTP is restarted.
25 Mar 16:57:32 ntpd[14436]: load_pps_provider: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\NTP\bin\loopback-ppsapi-provider.dll???????nY?': The specified module could not be found 25 Mar 16:57:32 ntpd[14436]: time_pps_create: load failed (C:\Program Files (x86)\NTP\bin\loopback-ppsapi-provider.dll???????nY?) --> 2 / No such file or directory 25 Mar 16:57:32 ntpd[14436]: load_pps_provider: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\NTP\bin\??h?l?': The specified module could not be found 25 Mar 16:57:32 ntpd[14436]: time_pps_create: load failed (C:\Program Files (x86)\NTP\bin\??h?l?) --> 2 / No such file or directory 25 Mar 16:57:32 ntpd[14436]: load_pps_provider: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\NTP\bin\A': The specified module could not be found 25 Mar 16:57:32 ntpd[14436]: time_pps_create: load failed (C:\Program Files (x86)\NTP\bin\A) --> 2 / No such file or directory 25 Mar 16:57:32 ntpd[14436]: time_pps_create: no providers available 25 Mar 16:57:32 ntpd[14436]: refclock_ppsapi: time_pps_create: Exec format error 25 Mar 16:57:32 ntpd[14436]: GPS_NMEA(4) flag1 1 but PPSAPI fails _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions