🚀 go-pugleaf

I have two instances of 8.3 filenames vexing me.

First: why does this call work:

r = spawnl(P_WAIT, "c:\\windows\\system32\\rundll32.exe", 
"c:\\windows\\system32\\rundll32.exe","C:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1\\system\\OLEDB~1\\oledb32.dll,OpenDSLFile 
c:\\temp.udl",NULL);


but this one does not?

r = spawnl(P_WAIT, "c:\\windows\\system32\\rundll32.exe", 
"c:\\windows\\system32\\rundll32.exe","C:\\Program files\\Common 
Files\\system\\Ole DB\\oledb32.dll,OpenDSLFile c:\\temp.udl",NULL);

The 'old' "C" calls to spawnl can't handle arguments with embedded 
spaces in spite of the enclosing quotes?


Second:
I have an Activex Server EXE with a long filename 
("NMSService_AlarmService.exe") that displays its full name on the 
Processes tab on Windows Task Manager.  The same exe, when I load and 
run it on a customer machine, shows "NMSServ~1.exe" in the TM.  This is 
a problem for me because I have a suite of these services that all have 
long filenames that start with "NMSService_".  Is this a locale setting 
on the remote machine? Anyone have any idea? Thanks for any help.

Mike