brian wrote:

At least IMHO, having to quote the entire parameter string, not just the value, is anything but "common whitespace and quote rules".

I am pretty sure that I have had to deal with this in the past on unix, writing shell or Perl scripts i.e. not in the context of FPC. It might, in the general case, be easier to enforce a rule that filenames don't contain characters which have special significance, at which point option values aren't going to need to be quoted except for cases like OPT= passed to the FPC build.

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