On Apr 3, 2005 9:53 PM, Daniel Gimpelevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had no intention of being rude. As my last sentence was meant to > indicate (but perhaps did not accomplish that task), the whole comment was > meant in jest. So goes another electronic misinterpretation...
I guess :-( :-) ;). Thanks for the comment, even if it did end up sending out a mixed message. Someone also sent me a missive off-list. I'll post part of it with this person's name excised (unless they wish to take public credit ;): The single quote allows you to type in a string to provide to the shell without using escape characters. For example, if you had a program on your system named "program x" (without the quotes), then typing > program x would not run the program, you would instead need to type: > program\ x However, you could also type: > 'program x' And it would do the same thing. Similarly, if you wanted to provide a string argument to a program that included special characters (such as whitespace), then you would do the same thing, such as: AddToAddressBook 'Name here' [EMAIL PROTECTED]' _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
