Re: [luv-talk] Is Windows really this awful?

Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> wrote:

...and, of course, Windows doesn't do quote processing or command line parsing in any particular standard way, so each process gets the entire single string with the rest of the command line on it.

Which makes for hilarity as every developer implements command line splitting and quoting themselves.

And I suppose those developers tend to support it inconsistently. I've heard that the Windows command line still resembles DOS, i.e., batch files, DOS commands, drive letters, \ path separators. Is that right? How are spaces in file names handled if there is no built-in support for quoting? I'm one of those "never used Windows" people who moved away from Microsoft products in the DOS days.