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Den 2011-06-27 15:38 skrev Andrey Repin:
> Greetings, Peter Rosin!
> 
>> As you are apparently using the cmd "shell", the correct way to quote
>> arguments in order to preserve spaces etc, is to use double quotes
>> and escape all backslashes with an extra backslash.
> 
> Ok, please explain, how could I escape backslashes in, say, Explorer?
> It could only quote the string.

Search me.

> I can't even write my own conversion utility :/
> No amount of external conversion would help using diff or patch freely.

It's not the fault of diff or patch that *you* prefer broken crap that
*you* can't coerce into feeding the desired arguments. I'm sure it's
possible though.

Cheers,
Peter

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