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 > > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.com > http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users > > _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
