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I experience that the command line options "-k" and "-f" do not seem to work properly in TextPad 7.6 and 8.0 when using absolute path names.

For 7.6, "-k" is working ok. For 8.0, "-k" does not use the given folder but creates a subfolder tree "Helios/TextPad" within. I.e. with the parameter "-k c:\somewhere", the license file will be C:\somewhere\helios\textpad\TextPadPKE.xml" instead of "c:\somewhere\TextPadPKE.xml".

When the parameter "-f" is given with an absolute path name ("-f c:\somewhere"), the configuration is stored in the "samples" subdirectory of the TextPad program folder instead of the specified path. With a relative path name given, the "-f" parameter works properly.

Both bugs apply to both 32 and 64 bit edition.

Can anyone confirm or disconfirm this problem? It would be kind if somewould could try to reproduce. Thanks.

This will be fixed in the next maintenance release.

Keith MacDonald
Helios Software Solutions

I can confirm that with version 8.0.1, both options are working properly again.

There is only one small problem left: When *writing* the license file TextPadPKE.xml, it is still being written to a "helios\textpad" subdirectory within the specified license path. However, it is being *read* from the license path directly. This just fyi.