Found a way around this, so it isn't critical.  But just really curious if 
this happens to anyone else.

On my really big client, workstations are all XP, with weekly automatic 
updates.  No clue what the network OS is, except I remember them changing to 
Active 
Directory a year or so ago.

When you use the wizard or manually create an RBase icon, and you want to use 
the -a switch, something weird happens.    If you type the hyphen, then type 
the a, then press the spacebar -- watch carefully.  My hyphen changes from a 
little hyphen to something much bigger.  Kinda like how Word changes some of 
the characters that you type.  I cannot get a little hyphen to "stick".  And 
when you run the icon, you get a "file not found" message and it tries to start 
RBase as a typical setup, which of course doesn't work.

What I was able to do is to copy a much older shortcut still on the desktop.  
 This one still must have had the normal hyphen in it.   But carefully 
modifying it, without going near the -a switch, it still works.

Any clue how I get Windows to STOP changing my hyphen to something else?

Karen

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