diff --git a/eg/dir space/ipctest.bat b/eg/dir space/ipctest.bat
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/eg/dir space/ipctest.bat	
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+@echo off 
+echo %1
diff --git a/eg/dir space/ipctest2 space.bat b/eg/dir space/ipctest2 space.bat
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/eg/dir space/ipctest2 space.bat	
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+@echo off 
+echo %1
diff --git a/eg/dirnospace/ipctest.bat b/eg/dirnospace/ipctest.bat
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/eg/dirnospace/ipctest.bat
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+@echo off 
+echo %1
diff --git a/eg/dirnospace/ipctest2 space.bat b/eg/dirnospace/ipctest2 space.bat
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8ad27cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/eg/dirnospace/ipctest2 space.bat	
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+@echo off 
+echo %1
diff --git a/eg/ipctest.bat b/eg/ipctest.bat
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/eg/ipctest.bat
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+@echo off 
+echo %1
diff --git a/eg/ipctest2 space.bat b/eg/ipctest2 space.bat
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8ad27cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/eg/ipctest2 space.bat	
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+@echo off 
+echo %1
diff --git a/t/win32_args_n_spaces.t b/t/win32_args_n_spaces.t
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+++ b/t/win32_args_n_spaces.t
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use Test::More;
+use IPC::Run 'run';
+use File::Spec;
+use Cwd 'getcwd';
+
+plan skip_all => 'Skipping on Win32' if $ENV{GITHUB_WINDOWS_TESTING};
+plan skip_all => 'Skipping when not on Win32' unless $^O eq 'MSWin32';
+run_tests();
+done_testing;
+
+sub run_tests {
+    chdir "eg";    # so we don't have to have files in project root
+    ## The 2 on the space bat prevents accidentally running the normal one.
+    my @summary;
+    my %seen;
+    test_set(
+        \@summary,
+        reverse sort map +( $seen{$_}++ ? () : ($_) ),
+        map {
+            my $slash     = $_;
+            my $abs_slash = my $abs = File::Spec->rel2abs($_);
+            $slash     =~ s@/@\\@g;
+            $abs_slash =~ s@\\@/@g;
+            ( $_, /\// ? ($slash) : (), $abs, $abs_slash )
+        } (
+            "ipctest.bat",
+            "ipctest2 space.bat",
+            "./ipctest.bat",
+            "./ipctest2 space.bat",
+            "dirnospace/ipctest.bat",
+            "dirnospace/ipctest2 space.bat",
+            "dir space/ipctest.bat",
+            "dir space/ipctest2 space.bat"
+        )
+    );
+    note join "\n", "\nSUMMARY:", @summary, " ";
+    return;
+}
+
+sub test_set {
+    my ( $summary, @tests ) = @_;
+    push @{$summary}, "\n\ntests:\n", @tests, " ", "successes:\n";
+    check( $summary, $_ ) for @tests;
+    return;
+}
+
+sub check {
+    my ( $summary, $executable ) = @_;
+    note "\ntest '$executable'";
+    my $t;
+    my $r = eval {
+        run [ $executable, "meep marp" ], ">", \my $out;
+        $t = is $out, qq[\"meep marp\"\n], "output was correct";
+        1;
+    };
+    push @{$summary}, $executable if $t;
+    fail "died with '$@'" if !$r;
+    return;
+}