Re: lynx-dev Command-line options and DOS [patch]

[Klaus Peter Wegge]

> 
> On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Klaus Peter Wegge wrote:
> 
> > > I think that with your batch file, what is actually passed
> > > to lynx is:
> > > "c:\lynx -auth abc:xyz".
> > > You should be able to test this by turning echo on in the batch file.
> > I did so. And the result is:
> > c:\>c:\lynx -auth=abc:xyz -show_cursor=on
> 
> So apparently "=" does get passed.
> 
> > But you are right. Replacing lynx by a batch file t.bat with the only
> > line
> > echo %1 %2 - %3 %4
> > you will see:
> > c:\t -auth abc:xyz - -show_cursor on
> 
> So apparently it is only the 'echo' command that has the problem?
No. It is not the echo command. In the example I realy get 4 parameters passed.
You can see it by the - sign inserted between %2 and %3

But there seems to be no ESCAPE-character for DOS like \= or so.

Klaus-Peter