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Phil Smith wrote:
> exactly what part of "(obviously I can figure this out, but if I knew
> offhand it would save me some hassle)" was unclear?

He's saying try it and find out:

$ cat > foo.sh
#!/bin/sh
echo $#
^D
$ chmod +x foo.sh
$ ./foo.sh -Dsomething=c:/Documents and Settings/whatever
3
$ ./foo.sh "-Dsomething=c:/Documents and Settings/whatever"
1
$

How hard was that?

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