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From: djfiander@watnot.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: stupid COMMAND.COM  (WAS:  DOS enviroment size)
Message-ID: <12572@watnot.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8-Mar-87 12:54:20 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  8 12:54:20 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Mar-87 04:36:24 EST
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Reply-To: djfiander@watnot.UUCP (David Fiander)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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Keywords: DOS environment substitutions

>> 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.  ...
> This is for PC-DOS 3.1 on an IBM PC XT.
>
>				Don Nash

Oops, * and ? are passed inside double quotes (sorry), but under DOS
3.0 the others are still not passed.  I know this because I tried to 
use '|' in an egrep pattern.  DOS passed the first part of the pattern to
egrep and tried to execute the second part.

-- 
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work.
I want to achieve immortality through not dying"
	- Woody Allen

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