Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 19:52:59 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Quoting in [4N]DOS Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk A number of GNU projects need to quote arguments passed to sub-processes so that these arguments are parsed correctly on the child side. While looking at the multitude of possible cases, I've stumbled across 4DOS and its ilk, and I'm totally stumped. Would people who use 4DOS please explain me in small words how should I go about quoting the ` (grave accent) character? I have read the 4DOS manual from top to bottom, and tried several ways, but it seems like impossible! I did find a way to quote " (use `, like in `foo"bar`), but no such luck with ` itself. No matter what I tried, I got complaints about unbalanced `. What did I miss? Thanks in advance for any help.