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From: cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Recent patches
Message-ID: <BX1go2w162w@cybrspc>
Date: 25 Aug 90 17:54:22 GMT
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darrylo@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Darryl Okahata) writes:

>      I'll bet that it is this second parsing of the command line (the
> first, I imagine, is done by 4dos) that is causing your problems.  The
> solution is to:
> 
>      1. Prevent the shell (4dos, in this case?) from interpreting quote
>         characters; these characters should be passed verbatim to the
>         MSDOS program.

This isn't a problem for single quotes, as they aren't important to
4dos.

>      2. Modify your MSDOS startup routine to do proper argc/argv
>         processing with quotes.  I know that this can be done under
>         both MicroSoft and Turbo C, although I do not have any source
>         code to do this.

Aha! I hadn't thought of this idea. Turbo C comes with source to the
startup code. My only problem may be getting Perl to compile under
Turbo. I've heard that it won't.

Thanks, Darryl, for clearing up my confusion.
--
    Roy M. Silvernail   | #include <stdio.h>                 | Does virtual
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