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From: dlnash@ut-ngp.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: stupid COMMAND.COM  (WAS:  DOS enviroment size)
Message-ID: <4817@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Mar-87 16:17:39 EST
Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.4817
Posted: Sat Mar  7 16:17:39 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Mar-87 17:33:06 EST
References: <2091@ncoast.UUCP> <409500003@prism> <2986@iuvax.UUCP> <12559@watnot.UUCP>
Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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Keywords: DOS environment substitutions

In article <12559@watnot.UUCP>, djfiander@watnot.UUCP writes:
> 
> Something that I discovered after getting the MKS toolkit (before they
> had KSH ready for release) was that it is physically impossible to
> pass certain characters to a program on the commandline, specifically
> " ' * ? | etc.
  ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
> 

I wrote a quicky C program which contained just printf("%s\n", argv[1]);
I could pass all of those characters highlighted above and also < and >.
The only thing I had to do is enclose | < and > in double quotes.  I
also wrote a batch file which was just echo %1.  I got the same results.
You can pass any character on the command line, if you put it in double
quotes.  However, the quotes are not stripped.  This is for PC-DOS 3.1
on an IBM PC XT.

				Don Nash

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