Still no luck on command line parse
Björn Róbertsson
bjornr at nyherji.is
Wed Jan 30 10:03:06 CST 2002
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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