From: alainm AT news DOT RISQ DOT QC DOT CA (Alain Magloire) Subject: Re: a make format problem Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: <942276780 DOT 8121 DOT 0 DOT nnrp-02 DOT c2de6b60 AT news DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> <382b267c AT 140 DOT 92 DOT 61 DOT 20> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 26 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 20:25:12 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.206.63.174 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT mcgill DOT ca X-Trace: carnaval.risq.qc.ca 942524712 132.206.63.174 (Sat, 13 Nov 1999 15:25:12 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 15:25:12 EST To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com ³¯¬f¦~ (bnchen AT netrd DOT iii DOT org DOT tw) wrote: : I use Djgpp make utility and SSI linker to develop my project under DOS : environment. : I got a problem to pass a link path to linker by writting the path into a : tmp file as the following line: : echo -Lpath1;path2 > tmp.lnk : make utility treat the semicolon as the seperate of two command, : so I got a "bad command or file name" error message because path2 is not a : valid command. I don't think make is doing any interpretation. However the shell will see two dinstinct comands : echo -Lpath1 path2 > tmp.lnk : How can I do to pass the directory? Use the backslash to suppress the shell interpretation of ';' -- au revoir, alain ---- Aussi haut que l'on soit assis, on est toujours assis que sur son cul !!!