Re: [bug-gawk] Percent Signs in External Commands on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:26:30 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Millis <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> An unusually long time has passed for this thread without a reply.
> Did I offend?

No, but life intervened.

> The feedback I was getting was inconsistent with what I expected to see from 
> someone who understood what fodder quotes were supposed to do and their 
> applicable context. So became increasingly detailed in case something was 
> being overlooked by one of us that confounded communication.
> 
> I was hoping to find out what that was.

When I have time, or if I bump into that by chance, I will show you
examples of trouble with quoting+cmd+other apps.