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Date:	Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:29:49 -0400
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>In a shell script what is the proper way to pass parameters to a window
>program?

Parameters are passed normally but special characters have to be
"quoted".

The backslashes (\) are interpreted by the shell, so quote each of them
by 
entering \\

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