Q39638: /Ss Fails under Environment Variable Setting

Article: Q39638
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 5.10   | 5.10
Operating System(s): MS-DOS | OS/2
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | buglist5.10 | mspl13_c
Last Modified: 29-DEC-1988

If you set CL= in your environment with the /Ss switch and a string
with embedded spaces within quotation marks, the listing file will not
contain the expected results.

For example if your AUTOEXEC file contains the following line

   SET CL=/Fs /Ss"Line with spaces"

and you invoke the compiler with the following command, the compiler
produces the .LST file as expected:

   CL filename.C

However, the header would read as follows

   "Line

instead of the following:

   "Line with spaces"

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Version 5.10. We are
researching this problem and will post new information as it becomes
available.

The workaround is to remove the /Ss"Line with spaces" from the
environment CL setting, and either type it on the command line, or put
it into a batch file, or make file.

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