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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
> > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> > Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 19:00:56 GMT
> >
... snip ...
> 
> > BTW a thought occurs to me - if the @ mechanism is to effectively
> > extend command lines, what is the effect of multiple @ in a single
> > command, e.g. "rm @foo @bar"?
> 
> They are all expanded one by one, using the same code.
> 
> In other words, the startup code loops through all the arguments it
> got from DOS, and processes each one with the code that expands
> wildcards, reads response files, etc.

I.E. the original demount I was executing, something like:

    rm -f @manifest\gcc2953b.mft
    rm -f @manifest\gpp2953b.mft

could have been written as:

    rm -f @manifest\gcc2953b.mft @manifest\gpp2953b.mft

(assuming I had typed the correct file names :-)

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