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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:45:14 -0700
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz AT sonic DOT net>
Subject: Re: Problems with @pathnames
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Magnus,

The @-file expansion feature is active only when a non-Cygwin program 
invokes a Cygwin executable.

Try your examples from CMD.exe or COMMAND.exe and you'll see that 
@-file expansion works as advertised.

Randall Schulz


At 09:11 2003-07-15, Magnus Lewis-Smith wrote:
>Do you have to do anything special to turn on @pathname expansion?
>
>The Cygwin User Guide, Chapter 3 (Special Filenames)
>[http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html]
>states:
>
>    Example 3-2. Using @pathname
>
>    bash$ echo  'This   is   "a     long"  line' > mylist
>    bash$ echo @mylist
>    @mylist
>    bash$ /bin/echo @mylist
>    This is a     long line
>    bash$ rm mylist
>    bash$ /bin/echo @mylist
>    @mylist
>
>
>which suggests that it should 'just happen'.  However, I get:
>
>    (~) echo  'This   is   "a     long"  line' > mylist
>    (~) echo @mylist
>    @mylist
>    (~) /bin/echo @mylist
>    @mylist
>
>which is clearly not what we want.  This has only been happening with recent
>cygwin1.dlls -- I'm using 1.3.22-1 now.  I had an older setup -- long 
>gone now,
>but probably 1.2.something where it was working.
>
>Any advice would be appreciated, particularly if I'm doing something really
>stupid.
>
>Thanks
>Magnus Lewis-Smith


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