Hi all:

I received several responses to my question. May thanks to all who
responded. Original question is below.

Basically there were two suggestions for how to solve the problem:
1. Put some portion of the command line in quotes (either entire command
line or project filename)
2. Use the 8.3 naming convention for the project file (e.g. "C:\My
Documents\My Project.apr" becomes "C:\MYDOCU~1\MYPROJ~1.APR")

I could not get suggestion #1 to work, which suggests the problem lies with
ArcView and not Windows.

I was able to get suggestion #2 to work. I view this as a workaround,
however, because in my application I do not know the name of the project
file until the user provides it at installation. I now need to figure out
how to automatically get the 8.3 filename for my .apr file through a call
from either InstallShield or MS Access - Michael Hickey suggested there may
be a Windows DLL call that would return the 8.3 filename for a full
filename, which would do the trick but I have not yet had a chance to search
one out. Anyone ideas here would be appreciated also!

Regards, Colin.

Colin Daniel
ESSA Technologies Ltd.
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
www.essa.com
email: cdaniel@essa.com


Original question:

I am writing an application that starts ArcView, with a particular project,
from Microsoft Access. We have been successful in doing this previously by
invoking a macro in Access using the command line expression such as:
C:\ESRI\AV_GIS30\ARCVIEW\BIN32\ARCVIEW.EXE C:\MyProject.apr

Unfortunately we have been unable to get this to work when the project
path/name has any blanks. For example, the same command line with the
following project filename does not work, as ArcView fails to recognize the
project:
C:\ESRI\AV_GIS30\ARCVIEW\BIN32\ARCVIEW.EXE C:\My Documents\My Project.apr

Can anyone tell me how to invoke a project from the command line when the
project path/name has blanks in it? Will SUM.