Message-Id:	<199909051753.RAA26810@out2.ibm.net>
From:	"Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Sun, 5 Sep 1999 13:53:51 -0400
MIME-Version:	1.0
Subject:	Re: Win 9X style long command lines
References:	<199909050447 DOT EAA74932 AT out5 DOT ibm DOT net>
In-reply-to:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.990905152954.20300V-100000@is>
X-mailer:	Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a)
Reply-To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

> The quoting would need some special testing.  The quoted arguments
> support in Windows programs is an undocumented mess full of
> incompatibilities.  Perhaps we should DTRT at least for Cygwin- and
> Mingw-compiled programs.

I found a Perl for Win32 document thanks to a search engine that mentions this and what 
they've discovered with their experiments. The page I found is at 
http://vcfw.er.usgs.gov/perldox/lib\Pod\perlwin32.html although I'm sure there are 
many other mirrors of this.

--- 
Mark Elbrecht, snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com
http://snowball.frogspace.net/

- Raw text -