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Subject: RE: Formatting command line arguments when starting a Cygwin process from a native process
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 16:49:47 +0100
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Marco Atzeri wrote:
> 
> Ultimate overview of MS escape howto :
> 
> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/twistylittlepassagesallalike/2011/04/23/e
> veryone-quotes-command-line-arguments-the-wrong-way/

This is a great article (which I'd not come across before), but this relates
to Microsoft's mechanisms for quoting which aren't applicable here - it's
definitely the Cygwin DLL which does it!


David 



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