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I'd also add that CommandLineToArgvW doesn't do exactly the same thing that the C runtime does to parse arguments. They used to be the same but the C runtime was tweaked in 2008 whereas CommandLineToArgvW was kept the same for backwards compatibility. See http://daviddeley.com/autohotkey/parameters/parameters.htm#W...




Huh. Wouldn't this have caused inter-operability problems for programs that spawn other processes?


Presumably they would have tested extensively for regressions. But I'm not sure what would break that wasn't already broken. It was an obscure undocumented case that was not intuitive.




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