On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Mateusz Viste wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I think this problem goes beyond "path separators". As I understand it, 
> any argument including a slash character will get exploded. So yes, this 
> might be used as path separator, but not only. For eg. sed expects slash 
> delimited values inside a single argument.
>
> @Juan - you also write about other "different issues and limitations" - 
> could you please post us a list? Even if FreeCom is semi-maintained 
> nowadays, it would still be interesting to know what kind of quirks you 
> found there..

command.com should not be splitting the strings at all, but should send 
the parameters "in the raw", terminated (iirc) by a newline.  It is for 
the libc to parse them; if otherwise, that is a serious flaw.

There *is* the option of 4DOS.

-uso.

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