[Wine] "cmd.exe /c echo '%ProgramFiles%' returned empty string"

[Frédéric Delanoy]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:16, dE_logics <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> hi.
>
> I'm trying to install a program using winetricks, but I'm using a separate wine install and WINEPREFIX, I run any command as such -
>
> WINEARCH="win32" WINE='/home/de/media_writeit!/FOSS/additional packages/Wine prefixes/Works with wine 1.3.32/wine-1.3.32' WINEPREFIX='/home/de/media_writeit!/temp(others)/walkthrough' ./winetricks
>

Cmd command-line arguments parsing has some issues. You should avoid
using special characters like '(', ')' or '!' in your paths (probably
also holds for many other programs TBH)

Frédéric