David Deley’s How Command Line Parameters Are Parsed is not only well written, it also shows how messy the entire DOS/Windows command line handling is.

Printed to a DIN A4 PDF document, this fills 31 pages. The entire command line parameters on Unix are explained on a single page, plus a heading on the previous page, plus an extra line on the following page, plus four footnotes (19, 1, 17, 18). And that including three examples. Let's say one and a half page. Another page is used for the table of contents, and the final page just contains a copyright and updates. The remaining 27.5 pages explain what a stinking mess Windows command line parsing is, and how to work around the different parsing rules.

Alexander

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Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)

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