At 00:26 19/07/01 +0100, Paul Millar wrote:
>The other thing worth mentioning is that with
Thanx all. Following your advise I tried dropping the \ and wrapping all
the shell stuff in ""s. It now seems to be working as planned.
I'm not sure that I quite understand HOW it works though; I'd only ever
looked at the interaction between the shell and the running program on the
Atari ST in great detail. There the command line is simply passed to the
application as a single string (after shell substitutions, including
quotes) and _main() chops it up into argc/argv - presumably this is not the
case in Unix since there is discrimation between an embedded space and a
field seperator. Does the shell split the command line or does it pass the
quote marks to the program?
Colin
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