From:	Jason Hood <jadoxa AT yahoo DOT com DOT au>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Quoting Response Files
Date:	Sat, 30 Aug 2003 15:31:50 +1000
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It is not possible to quote a response file (@list) to prevent it
from being expanded. ie: 'prog @list' and 'prog "@list"' will both
use the contents of list as arguments. This appears to be due to a
bug in src/libc/crt0/c1args.c - it will only say an argument was
quoted if it contains wildcard characters, meaning the quoted test
is always false when it tests for '@'. This could be fixed by either
removing the wildcard test (which makes sense to me - why say an
argument wasn't quoted when it was?) or add another test for '@'.

Jason.

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