On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Klaus Weide wrote:
> Lynx's HTQuoteParameter function already uses a trick like this (not
> exactly as shown by you), but only if the string to be quoted includes
> a single quote character.
>
> ab"cd (five characters) -> 'ab'"'"'cd'
>
> I don't know what DOS or VMS shells do with *that*... But then
VMS uses a different quoting rule (the .com files in Lynx have
several examples, actually). But quotes are used mainly to
evoke symbol substitution or prevent case-conversion by DCL (the shell).
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