From: mathew <meta@...>
Date: 2005-07-17T06:49:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in ruby's command line parsing

Lothar Scholz wrote:

> It definetely ruby's fault. Windows doesn't have an escape
>
>character for the command line.
>

There's kind of a semantic issue here.

Windows has an escape character for cmd.exe; it's ^, according to 
Microsoft's documentation. However, you can't use it to escape double 
quotes. Plus, many programs use libraries for command-line parsing which 
offer additional escape characters, allow Unix-style options, and so on.

Comma ought to be preprocessed by CMD before the parameters reach ruby, 
according to the CMD.EXE documentation I can find. Does "C:\","D:\" work?


mathew