Re: command line variable assignments

[Kenny McCormack]

In article <address@hidden>,
Tom Lord <address@hidden> wrote:
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>
>Versions 3.0.3 and 3.0.6 both seem to think that an "=" in a 
>command line argument indicates a variable assignment rather
>than a filename.  As I read the spec, this is so only if the 
>text to the left of the "=" begins with an underscore or letter and
>contains only characters which are valid in identifiers -- otherwise
>the argument must be treated as a filename.

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