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From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 13:53:51 -0400
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Subject: Re: Win 9X style long command lines
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> The quoting would need some special testing.  The quoted arguments
> support in Windows programs is an undocumented mess full of
> incompatibilities.  Perhaps we should DTRT at least for Cygwin- and
> Mingw-compiled programs.

I found a Perl for Win32 document thanks to a search engine that mentions this and what 
they've discovered with their experiments. The page I found is at 
http://vcfw.er.usgs.gov/perldox/lib\Pod\perlwin32.html although I'm sure there are 
many other mirrors of this.

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Mark Elbrecht, snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com
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