parameters - problem with echo

Hello,

I had a lot of trouble with my zecho tool, which is due to a very
different handling of parameters between FreeDOS and MsDos.
Zecho is somewhat like the Dos-command echo.
(zecho is part of the package zdef, which I rerelease soon)

It took me long to find out, what caused this trouble. Here is a
simple summary.
I don't want to complain, I just want to show, that there are still
differences, and that they can cause trouble. 

How both systems handle parameters:

1. C:\command/parameter
   MsDos:   "/parameter"
   FreeDos: "/parameter"

2. C:\command parameter
   MsDos:   " parameter"
   FreeDOS: "parameter"

3. C:\command     parameter
   MsDos:   "     parameter"
   FreeDOS: "parameter"

In case 1 both systems react the same, but that's a rare case.

Case 2 caused big trouble with my tool: Because of the behaviour of
MsDos, I decided to strip the first character of the parameter, which
is of course wrong for FreeDOS. (I didn't really recognize this as
reason for my problem first, because the first interpreted character 
of zecho is normally not to be printed out)

Case 3 still causes trouble, because I don't want my text to be
left-aligned. This really looks strange with hebrew texts!
(I found a workaround for zecho, but not yet for normal echo)

-- 
Tschuess
	Andreas