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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to jayjwa   
   Re: Local Versus Global Command Options   
   18 Feb 25 01:19:55   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:46:49 -0500, jayjwa wrote:   
      
   > $ mcr DUA1:[JAYJWA.PROGRAMMING.C]cmdlin Hello World   
   > Did I hear you say hello?   
      
   That demonstrates, does it not, that the C runtime is doing its own   
   processing of the command line buffer, to try to mimic POSIX behaviour.   
   Which proves my point, does it not.   
      
   That probably includes stripping of quotes as well.   
      
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