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echo: delphi
to: ERIC SCHREIBER
from: STEVE ROGERS
date: 1997-06-18 07:38:00
subject: Loading files with spaces

ES>However, since the ported version is recognized as a 32-bit app, Win95 is
  >sending it the unadulterated long file names when a file is double clicked 
in
  >Explorer. My program parses in file name from the command line, and when 
t
  >hits a space character it assumes that's the complete file name and gives 
me
  >'file not found' error.
ES>Anyone know how to handle accepting long file names on the command line? 
s
  >Win95 feeding the file names with some kind of delimiter?
  Try surrounding the filename with double quotes. In your association
  surround %1 with double quotes.
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