From: tromey AT cygnus DOT com (Tom Tromey)
Subject: Re: -@file
1 Apr 1998 07:55:45 -0800
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Reply-To: tromey AT cygnus DOT com
To: Eric Bachalo <ebachalo AT cygnus DOT com>
Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <ian AT cygnus DOT com>, cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com,
        fgeers AT cygnus DOT com

Eric> I did it on purpose because I thought is might be useful to be
Eric> able to stick long quoted strings in a file.  Don't know of any
Eric> instance one needs a long or often used quote in a command line
Eric> though.

Command-line parsing/dequoting is done after the file is read.  So you
can put a long quoted string into a file by putting the quotes in the
file.

I guess it doesn't matter to me all that much.  Odds are I will never
encounter this feature in practice.

Tom