From:	"Ian T. Zimmerman" <itz AT crl DOT com>
Subject:	test 'blah blah' ?
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJ Delorie)
Date:	Sat, 25 Jun 1994 17:13:04 -0700 (PDT)

How does go32 handle single-quotes on the command line? After trying in 
vain to pass a blank-interspersed script to awk on the command line, I 
wrote the following beauty and built with djgpp:

#include <stdio.h>

main (int argc, char** argv)
{
	printf (argv [1]);
}

The results (somewhat unexpected?):

>test "blah"
blah

>test 'blah'
blah

>test "blah blah"
blah blah

>test 'blah blah'
'blah

This behaviour makes a port of a Unix program that depends on the shell 
for command line processing a nontrivial matter. I think single quotes 
should be stripped by go32 just as double quotes are, in all cases.

Could someone point me to the place in go32 where quoting and globbing is 
handled? I would then attempt a fix. Thanks a lot.

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