Re: new module 'system-quote'

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 11:28:17 +0200
> 
> Since '^' is a quoting character in cmd.exe, maybe you can try whether
> it helps to protect "*" inside double-quotes on Windows 7? That is,
> try to pass arguments such as
>   ^*
>   ^^*
>   "*"
>   "^*"
>   "^^*"
>   \"*\"
>   \"^*\"
>   \"^^*\"
>   ^"*^"
>   ^^"*^^"

I've now tested these, and as expected, they don't help on Windows 7.

My conclusion is that ^ is processed entirely by cmd.exe in its
application code, whereas globbing code in MSVCRT does not assign any
special meaning to that character.