Problem with ghc on Windows ME

Carl Witty cwitty at newtonlabs.com
Thu Jan 29 08:29:42 EST 2004


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




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