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@@ -217,6 +217,19 @@ information is instead sent to the console, if one is present, or is discarded. .RS .PP +Note that the current escape resp. quoting of arguments for windows works only +with executables using CommandLineToArgv, CRT-library or similar, as well as +with the windows batch files (excepting the newline, see below). +Although it is the common escape algorithm, but, in fact, the way how the +executable parses the command-line (resp. splits it into single arguments) +is decisive. +.PP +Unfortunately, there is currently no way to supply newline character within +an argument to the batch files (\fB.cmd\fR or \fB.bat\fR) or to the command +processor (\fBcmd.exe /c\fR), because this causes truncation of command-line +(also the argument chain) on the first newline character. +But it works properly with an executable (using CommandLineToArgv, etc). +.PP The Tk console text widget does not provide real standard IO capabilities. Under Tk, when redirecting from standard input, all applications will see an immediate end-of-file; information redirected to standard output or standard @@ -409,6 +422,10 @@ that sometimes pop up: With the file \fIcmp.bat\fR looking something like: .PP .CS +@gcc %* +.CE +or like another variant using single parameters: +.CS @gcc %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 .CE .SS "WORKING WITH COMMAND BUILT-INS" |