Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <19990817235105.23760.rocketmail@web113.yahoomail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:51:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Subject: RE: Make quoted strings problem running from cmd.exe... To: Kevin Hill , cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Kevin Hill wrote: > I guess what I really need to do is rebuild CMD.EXE with the Cygwin > toolkit!!! Wonder whether I can get the source code. > Wonder if the Freedows work is still alive? Did they get as far as CMD.EXE? > If I cannot rebuild CMD.EXE, is there anything I can do in the make > syntax to get it to put things in the way I need them to be for standard > NT executables? Any guesses? As mentioned before, when there are no > quotes on the command line, GNUmake outputs stuff differently from when > there is, as demonstrated below. However, when running the > Cygwin-compiled shell, it appears the same. It must, however, be doing > something different, mustn't it, or is the change in fact in the C > runtime itself. Now I am confused. > > Can anyone help out here? > Yes, the runtimes are different. Therefore, you get different results. If you want your program to do what you want, then you'll have to quote the quotes as I've told you before. E.G.: MyProg -i ^"This Should Work^" or \"This Should Work\". You might want to check out an appropriate MS news group or visit the MSDN to get more info on quoting with the DOS/WIN32 runtimes. === Earnie Boyd Newbies, please visit (If you respond to the list, then please don't cc me) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com