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On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:00:14AM -0700, Stephan Mueller wrote:
><offtopic>
>Yes, it's awful, but the batch file isn't totally at a loss.  If, in
>the batch file, you refer to parameters %1 %2 etc., as you've
>discovered, the parsing treats equals signs (and semicolons, and
>perhaps others; I forget) as spaces.  But, if you refer to %*, you can
>get the whole original command line, unmolested, inside the batch file.
>At worst, you can tokenize it yourself (with the cryptic but
>powerful-enough batch 'for' command, perhaps), but at best, you can
>just use it as is and pass it to your compiler.
>
>At one time, and perhaps still, Microsoft compilers support(ed) using #
>in place of = on the command line: -DSOMETHING#AVALUE.  I'm willing to
>bet it was to work around this misfeature of batch.
></offtopic>

This is all an argument for using Cygwin the way it was supposed to be
used - there are no .bat files on UNIX.  Use shell scripts instead.

cgf

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