From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: FYI: character quoting in Win32
20 Aug 1998 11:56:04 -0700
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To: Michael Mauch <michael DOT mauch AT gmx DOT de>
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---Michael Mauch <michael DOT mauch AT gmx DOT de> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 07:34:14 -0700 (PDT), Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> > In order to put this in the archive and to educate the ignorant as I
> > used to be, the circumflex "^" (SHIFT of 6 on US Keyboard) can be
used
> > to quote any character similar to the backslash "\" in UNIX.
> > 
> > Example:
> > 
> > bash$: grep some_variable \| some_other_variable *.c
> > 
> > would translate to
> > 
> > DOS$: grep some_variable ^| some_other_variable *.c
> 
> Hmm, is this a trick of NT or do you run 4dos or some other
non-standard
> command interpreter?
> 

I found this information on the MSDN, I don't remember the page
though.  It didn't state that it was particular to NT or 9x.
==
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