Re: parameters - problem with echo

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Andreas K. Foerster wrote:

Hello Andreas,

this is actually a known bug.

> 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

Your assumption is "of course" wrong in any shell, see this program:
=== T.ASM
	mov ah, 9
	mov dx, 81h
	int 21h
	mov ax, 4c00h
	int 21h
	int 20h
===
It just displays the command line, hence, don't forget the trailing '$'
character required by DOS-09. Best to be compiled as .COM.

Now enter this on the command line of your favorite shell:

C> .\T.COM=abcd$
=abcd
^^^ NO leading space!

Bye,

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Steffen Kaiser

The current maintainer of [email protected]
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