I've been told that WinDOS (from the beginning) usually accepted both types of
directory separators. There may be exceptions to that (as so often in WinDOS),
but it may be worth a try to use the forward slashes / also on that platform.
Gene, is that possible in your environment?


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> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 22:54:05 -0400
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [ast-users] How to ignore \ on from command line args without 
> using quotes
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> this is a windows question, probably best asked on uwin-users
> from ksh you must use posix sh quoting rules
> and the semantic clash between '\' as unix escape char and windows dir sep
> will require extra typing
>
> On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:52:10 -0400 gene golub wrote:
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> > Hello Forum=2C I use MKS Tools korn shell for windows. I often need to supp=
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> > ht now I need to use double quotes to conserve '\' for further parsing into=
> > '/'. Execution line looks like: script1 argum1 "c:\dir1\dir2\dir3" argum3s=
> > Can i get it to be: script1 argum1 c:\dir1\dir2\dir3 argum3? It would save=
> > me an effort to type ' " ' for each execution.
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> > Thank you=2C
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> > Hello Forum=2C<BR>&nbsp=3B<BR>I use MKS Tools korn shell for windows. <BR>I=
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> > n file explorer.<BR>Right now I need to use double quotes to conserve '\' f=
> > or further parsing into '/'.<BR>&nbsp=3B<BR>Execution line looks like: <BR>=
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> > BR>It would save me an effort to type ' " ' for each execution.<br><br>Than=
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