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  3. July 2002

Re: Problem with scs2ascii

Scott Klement <klemscot@klements.com> writes:

> Well, I know the embedded quotes won't work in Windows.   I *thought* they
> caused problems in Unix-style environments too, but now I can't reproduce
> that.

Windows' quoting is... unique.  I didn't even know that single quotes
worked instead of double quotes, but I'm not really surprised that
they only work on the ends of arguments.

It turns out that rc doesn't like unquoted equals characters in
arguments either; maybe I should just quote everything.

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        -- Fred Allen

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