Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 14:32:32 +0200 (IST)
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On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Mark E. wrote:

> 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.

Thanks for the pointer.

This page is wrong in one crucial point: the redirection characters ">", 
"|" etc. *can* be quoted: just include them inside double quotes as 
above.  Even COMMAND.COM supports that since DOS 5.0, and CMD does that 
as well (I just tried).

From my old Borland days, I remember that Borland had a terribly broken 
wildcard-expanding module, as far as double quotes are concerned.  This 
was in BC 3.x, so perhaps current versions solved those bugs.  But the 
fact that this page doesn't talk about any differences between compilers' 
runtimes makes me nervous: I'm positive different compilers do it 
differently.

I guess we will need to conduct our own small research...