Application crashing when talking to oracle unless executable path contains spaces

Question

We have an x-files problem with our .NET application. Or, rather, hybrid Win32 and .NET application.

When it attempts to communicate with Oracle, it just dies. Vani

Answer 1

You should get a medal for perseverance for that !.

"Exactly what XPO does now I don't really know, but if I dropped this table, and recreated it with the right case, using double quotes around all the column names to get the case right, the problem doesn't crop up.

Exactly where the space in the folder name comes into this, I still have no idea"

The issues I get with spaces in names is that they generally interpret the bit before the space as the name and the rest as a parameter. If that is the case, then with the plain name it can see "C\Temp" and it is a directory. With the spaced name, it gets "C:\Program Files", looks for "C:\Program" and that doesn't exist. It would fail, for example, to overwrite "C:\Temp" but would succeed in writing "C:\Program". Wonder whether it would still fail with "C:\Program Files" if there is a file or directory called "C:\Program"