Re: device syntax

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Thursday 21 October 2004 13:26, Tomas Ebenlendr wrote:
> Hmm, and what if there are quotes, or newlines in name? I think that
> we should be able to pass /any/ string to bios/firmware. Question is
> what characters we want to escape. If escaped characters will be e.g.
> quotes, the need of using this will be very little. If we escape
> commas, many names will get horrible. So what about this solution,
> extended by '\' as escaping character, using \" for char '"', \\ for
> '\' and \xxx for nonprintable or other characters?

That should be supported by the command-line interface, surely.

Okuji