Application deployment with assistant as help viewer

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Does assistant work if you tell it to use one of the default help collections?

I just tried

./assistant -collectionFile c:/Qt/4.4.2/examples/help/simpletextviewer/documentation/simpletextviewer.qhc

with the same result - nothing happens. assistant exits with no messages. Again, if I drop the "./" at the beginning so that it uses the installed assistant, it works as expected, bringing up the simpletextviewer help window.