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From: "Dykstra, Sean" <Sean_Dykstra AT maxtor DOT com>
To: "'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: More '@' Symbol
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 13:28:52 -0700
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Hello all!

I have found many references to the '@' symbol and command globbing and
command line parsing, but I have not yet found a solution to my problem.

Can the '@' symbol be disabled as a special character?  I have tried
disabling the command globbing per the FAQ, but to no avail.  (Probably
because it is not really part of the command globbing?!)

The problem I have is that we have several thousand scripts that are spawned
from DOS batch files which use the following syntax:

max_ata @foo.tst

This is based on our old legacy DOS 16-bit code, and we are simply trying to
drop in the new code in it's place.  This is one of the few roadblocks left
for us.

Can this be disabled?  If not, I fear my group will be spending a good
amount of time fixing all of our scripts!

As usual, I am still enamored with DJGPP.  It is an awesome tool!

Thanks!

Sean Dykstra
Sr. Manager
Maxtor Corporation