recursive commands?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Martin Pool writes:

 > I think he means that the shell removes the doublequotes, so the
 > process gets a list of strings.

COMMAND.COM does remove doublequotes as part of the process of
variable expansion (I never learned much about CMD.EXE and/or
successors).  However, it returns a single string, not a list.

ISTR that the original command string is available somewhere, I think
DJGPP's C library parsed that itself rather than use the shell's
semiparsed version.  I could be wrong, it's been 15 years....