29 Jan
2004
29 Jan
'04
11:29 a.m.
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 03:31, Simon Marlow wrote:
So does that mean functionality has been lost in the move from ghc-6.0.1?
No, the behaviour is improved in 6.2 because we're now careful to escape quotes before passing the command-line to the operating system.
I think confusion has arisen because Simon pointed out that there's no way, on Windows, to pass this sequence of characters as an argument to a command:
\"
I got the idea from the original description that it was also impossible to send an argument which ended with a backslash. Is this true? Has anybody found a workaround for this? Carl Witty