Date:	Wed, 1 Apr 1998 19:52:59 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Quoting in [4N]DOS
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.980401194612.8819B-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

A number of GNU projects need to quote arguments passed to sub-processes 
so that these arguments are parsed correctly on the child side.  While 
looking at the multitude of possible cases, I've stumbled across 4DOS and 
its ilk, and I'm totally stumped.

Would people who use 4DOS please explain me in small words how should I 
go about quoting the ` (grave accent) character?  I have read the 4DOS 
manual from top to bottom, and tried several ways, but it seems like 
impossible!  I did find a way to quote " (use `, like in `foo"bar`), but 
no such luck with ` itself.  No matter what I tried, I got complaints 
about unbalanced `.  What did I miss?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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