worley@compass.com (Dale Worley) (08/25/90)
X-Name: Randal Schwartz I'd guess your shell is completely ignoring the single quotes, because that's the sort of error you'd get from a real shell if you left the single quotes off. Too bad (he mutters again). It's true -- the MS-DOS shell has peculiar quoting conventions. In fact, if I remember correctly, it has none at all -- the command line is dumped into a buffer for the C startup routine to break into argv[]. Dale Worley Compass, Inc. worley@compass.com -- With friends like these, who needs hallucinations? -- Buddy, "Night Court"