Still no luck on command line parse

[Björn Róbertsson]

If it's a parse problem it could also be the qbtimer program attempting 
to parse the command line, just for the nerd... have you tried locating 
the program in a 8.3 compliant path, i.d. C:\intuit\qbtimer\qbtimer.exe" ?

Carol Farlow Lerche wrote:

> Thanks, bjornr, however your suggestion to try:
> 
> wine "C:\Program Files\intuit\qbtimer\qbtimer.exe"
> 
> gave the same result as the other command lines I tried.  
> 
> All invoke the qbtimer program and all get the same error from qbtimer:  
>  Can't find timer file "Files/intuit/qbtimer.exe" ...
> 
> So wine properly finds the qbtimer.exe file.  The error arises after
> the program is invoked and it tries to examine its own parameters.
> 
> Are you using the same version of Wine as I am?  I have
> codeweavers-wine-20011108-5.i386.rpm under Redhat 7.1, and a native
> Win98 partition.
> 
> I suspect this problem may be related to the different quoting rules
> between bash and Windows C library that has been discussed in the
> context of cygwin bash and NT emacs spawning win32 programs.  See:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs/discuss/shell-quoting
> 
> It may not be a bug in this version of Wine, but so far I have been
> unable to come up with a recipe that both allows Wine to find the
> executable from a path containing a space and also allows the Windows
> application to correctly interpret its command line options.
> 
> Carol Lerche
> 
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