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Subject: Re: More '@' Symbol
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> From: "Dykstra, Sean" <Sean_Dykstra AT maxtor DOT com>
> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 13:28:52 -0700
> 
> Can the '@' symbol be disabled as a special character?

Yes.

> 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?

Set the _CRT0_FLAG_DISALLOW_RESPONSE_FILES bit in
_crt0_startup_flags, and the program won't expand arguments which
start with a `@'.