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From: JRSON AT NetZero DOT Net (John R Hanson)
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: cygwin->msvcrt argv expansion algorithems
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 21:13:40 GMT
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This is pursuant to the discussion of several months
ago about make and interfacing with msvc/mingw32 binaries.
cygwin is not microsoft compatible regarding command
line quoting , so you asked for patches to fix it.

I know nothing about cygwin so here are the algorithms,
someone who knows about cygwin can figure out the fix.

On Sun, 12 Dec 1999 16:38:31 -0500, you wrote:

>On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 07:43:34PM +0000, John R Hanson wrote:
>>You would know better than I where these need to be slotted
>>into the cygwin .dll.
>
>I guess if I took some time, I could probably figure out what "these"
>are.  This seems to have something to do with command line quoting,
>obviously.  And, you want to plug it into cygwin somewhere.
>
>But I'm sorry to say that I'm not going to take time to investigate
>hundred of lines of code, especially when I have no clear idea what
>it's for.
>
>If this is intended to replace one of cygwin's quoting methods, it's
>unlikely that I'd consider doing that without an extremely compelling
>rationale for doing so.  "It doesn't handle all of the cases that MSVC
>does" is *not* a  reason for throwing everything away, btw.
>
>Sorry,
>Chris
>
>>--- Cut Here ----------------------------------------------------------
>>  /* this is an example program for encoding and decoding
>>     command lines to be used when starting a subprocess
>>     via CreateProcess 
>>     compile with
>>     gcc -oCreateP CreateP.c
>>  */
>>[snip]

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