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From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Problems with MS-DOS
Message-ID: <1990Aug25.012952.3163@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 25 Aug 90 01:29:52 GMT
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   X-Name: Randal Schwartz

   I'd guess your shell is completely ignoring the single quotes, because
   that's the sort of error you'd get from a real shell if you left the
   single quotes off.  Too bad (he mutters again).

It's true -- the MS-DOS shell has peculiar quoting conventions.  In
fact, if I remember correctly, it has none at all -- the command line
is dumped into a buffer for the C startup routine to break into
argv[].

Dale Worley		Compass, Inc.			worley@compass.com
--
With friends like these, who needs hallucinations? -- Buddy, "Night Court"