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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:52:28 -0400
From: Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com>
To: Cygwin <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: Re: Double Backslash/Space exec Argument Problem
Message-ID: <20001020135228.A1068@dothill.com>
References: <20001018141504 DOT B1023 AT dothill DOT com>
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In-Reply-To: <20001018141504.B1023@dothill.com>; from Jason.Tishler@dothill.com on Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 02:15:04PM -0400
Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp.

On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 02:15:04PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> Cygwin appears to double up backslashes in arguments containing spaces
> when passed from a Cygwin program (e.g., bash) to a native Win32 program:

The above appears to be fixed in the latest CVS source.

Hindsight has shown me that grep-ing through the ChangeLog for "\"
instead of "backslash", would have been more fruitful.

Sorry, for crying wolf...

Jason

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