Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!mks!wheels
From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PC Tools Deluxe Version 5 is out!
Message-ID: <670@mks.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 89 14:23:46 GMT
References: <2569@pegasus.ATT.COM> <640005@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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In article <640005@hpcilzb.HP.COM>, bazavan@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Valentin Bazavan) writes:
> > 	$ alias foo='c:\dos\foo.exe'
> This works, but you need both the quotes and a double slash:
> '\\dos\\foo.exe' (at least in my version of the toolkit, 2.3).  Why?

Well, I'm not sure.  The quotes alone will prevent the shell from
molesting the backslashes in my sample alias.  Perhaps the startup code
for your application also interprets backslashes, and so they have to be
doubled for it to pass them through.  Glad to see you got it working,
anyway. 

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