[Mingw-users] Re: call dos programs from msys shell

[Hans H. <ha...@2h...>]

sorry - wrong list. just found similar posting on the msys new group.
Who would have thought that I have to use a forward slash to escape the
forward slash?

H.


"Hans Horn" <ha...@2h...> wrote in message
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> Dear all,
>
> I've installed/mingw with all the latest goodies and started to port my
> cygwin build environment.
> I ran into the following problem: at some time I need to call a dos
program
> with arguments, e.g.
>
> doscmd.exe /c /i
>
> No matter what I do with the /c command line flag (embedding it in single
or
> double quotes, escaping the forward slash), the msys shell
> seems to insist to interpret it as C:/.
>
> Is this a bug? Am I doing something wrong? Pls. advise.
>
> Hans
>
>
>
>
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