From: Jason Hood Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Quoting Response Files Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 15:31:50 +1000 Lines: 10 Message-ID: <3F5036C6.436398F8@yahoo.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: roc-56k-078.tpgi.com.au (202.7.180.78) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1062221516 12509271 202.7.180.78 (16 [148584]) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com It is not possible to quote a response file (@list) to prevent it from being expanded. ie: 'prog @list' and 'prog "@list"' will both use the contents of list as arguments. This appears to be due to a bug in src/libc/crt0/c1args.c - it will only say an argument was quoted if it contains wildcard characters, meaning the quoted test is always false when it tests for '@'. This could be fixed by either removing the wildcard test (which makes sense to me - why say an argument wasn't quoted when it was?) or add another test for '@'. Jason.