OK, let me make sure I am not confused:

Are you saying that on Unix:

>echo \\\foobar
\foobar

And that is why you expected that?  


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Smith [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 6:21 AM
To: Mark Galeck (CW)
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: RE: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar

On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 06:02 -0800, Mark Galeck (CW) wrote:
> That's the whole point, you said before, it _should_ be \foobar, that
> is what you had "expected", obviously based on some knowledge about
> GNU make's behavior.

No, not "obviously".  Please don't leap to conclusions.



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