SPUG: SPUG Project Ideas

B.Ingerson at epixtech.com B.Ingerson at epixtech.com
Fri Aug 11 20:18:13 CDT 2000


Absolutely...





Jamie Shaffer <jshaffer at chronology.com> on 08/11/2000 06:02:28 PM

To:   B.Ingerson at epixtech.com
cc:   wwg at tscnet.com, SPUG at cpan.org

Subject:  Re: SPUG: SPUG Project Ideas


Well, if you're going to get creative, I think that
"1_r joke" ought to give you a 'one liner'.  ;)

B.Ingerson at epixtech.com wrote:

> Bill,
>
> That's the way I would solve it. But it still remains to be seen whether
> you can open a pipe for the command and have it work on Win32/DOS the way
> it does with a shell.
>
> We can figure out all these minor details on Tuesday. Besides we still
need
> to vote on *which* project we want to do anyway.
>
> Keep the creative juices flowing,
>
> Brian
>
> wwg at tscnet.com@pm.org on 08/11/2000 03:20:16 PM
>
> Please respond to wwg at tscnet.com
>
> Sent by:  owner-spug-list at pm.org
>
> To:   SPUG at cpan.org
> cc:
>
> Subject:  RE: SPUG: SPUG Project Ideas
>
> Why not just check the $OSNAME variable, and use the
> appropriate syntax?  We could have two variables:
> $nix_quote = a single quote, and
> $win_quote = a double quote.
>
> Then, depending on the value of $OSNAME, use the
> appropriate quote variable to enclose the command.  This
> is similar to what I've done for path separators,
> end-of-line chars, etc.
>
> Regards,
> Bill Graham
> Software Engineer
> 360 Powered Corp.
> www.360.com
>
> Quoting Andy Jacobs <andyj at microsoft.com>:
>
> > On Win32 there are problems quoting command-line
> programs.  The shell
> > doesn't recognize single quotes as anything special,
> so it thinks the
> > single
> > quote is just an apostrophe in the first parameter
>
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