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Re: Problem with win32 version


From: Stepan Kasal
Subject: Re: Problem with win32 version
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 21:43:51 +0100
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Hi,

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:19:43PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I think the Windows port also removes the quotes, if only "double"
> quotes are used.
> 
> (The DJGPP library used to produce the DJGPP port of Gawk supports
> both 'single' and "double" quote characters, but most other
> DOS/Windows libraries only support "double" quotes.)

IIRC, the double quotes were supported by command.com, and are probably
also supported by cmd.exe.  But I vaguelly recall there were some problems,
so I hesitate to recommend it.

Stepan




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