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Re: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix

At 10:30 PM 8/10/2005, you wrote:
>Thanks.  One of these years I will eventually understand when quotes cause an item with embedded spaces
>to be a single item and when they get lost in processing, causing the embedded space item to be multiple items.


A single set of double quotes are always there for the shell's benefit
unless escaped in some way.  So the shell will interpret (remove) them.  
Tools typically don't interpret quotes specially, even if there are 
embedded or escaped sets.  


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