I hope the stuff below makes sense, im not too good at describing stuff :)
well, short filenames (8.3) with the ' letter in them is behaving wierd..
the ' is for some reason chopped off..


BUMP'N~1 NES        65,679  04-17-97  8:38p Bump 'n Jump.nes

E:\neshead>nes bump'~1.nes
NES Header tool v0.1

Couldn't open bump~1.nes

E:\neshead>

the command: nes "bump 'n jump.nes" 
however works.

The root of the problem is that DJGPP tries to interpret the command line
in a Unixy style -- and fails to complain about a syntax error in doing
so.

Particularly, in the case at hand the quote character is interpreted as
the opening of a quoted command line argument. The startup code doesn't
seem to complain that there is no closing quote to be seen, and just eats
up the quote.

Enclosing the filename in double quotes was found to work around the
problem.

The startup code indeed doesn't complain about unbalanced quotes.
However, that's not a bug, but a deliberately chosen behavior.  I think
that the startup code should in general quietly do the reasonable thing
and not emit gratuitious messages.

The way to pass quote characters to a DJGPP program is described in
section 16.3 of the DJGPP FAQ list.

I'm closing this bug report.