but short names were the culprit.. or at least a solution

ok now I finally got the mesage ;) can you confirm if this version works (works for me but with my system who knows ~) http://www.firepages.org/stuff/php_win_short.exe (52kb) if it does perhaps someone can fix up this code & apply ? char *args[4], *prog = NULL; char binary_file[] = "php.exe"; char modulepath[_MAX_PATH]; char shortpath[_MAX_PATH]; // Look for php.exe in the same directory as php_win.exe if (GetModuleFileName(NULL, modulepath, _MAX_PATH)) { char *separator_location = strrchr(modulepath, '\\'); if (separator_location) { struct stat statbuf; strcpy(separator_location+1, binary_file); if (stat(modulepath, &statbuf) == 0) { if (((statbuf.st_mode & S_IEXEC) == S_IEXEC)) { //>>needs error checking<<// GetShortPathName( modulepath, shortpath, _MAX_PATH) ; prog = shortpath ; } } } }