Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 17:52:33 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: How to launch shell from `system'?
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On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, DJ Delorie wrote:

> Under unix, you'd need to do the equivalent of this:
> 
> > 		sh -c '@response-file'

Hmm... that's tricky: what if the command itself has wildcards or parts 
of it are already quoted?

> Of course, the djgpp command line parser can't handle that.

Another reason not to do that: I want to support possible DJGPP ports of 
shells.  I also doubt that any other command processor supports such 
command lines.

But anyway, is there any differences between `sh -c @file' and 
`sh -c file'?