When I put "^blah" into the commandline, only "blah" (roof "^" vanished) arrives into my app in XP. Need to put "^^blah" (roof doubled) in order to get "^blah". BUG or feature? No problem in DOS or ME. Tested using this:
http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?p=156560#156560

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I don't want to have the roof above my "b". I want my arguments to arrive in my app undamaged.

^ + x = UNICODE char

Where x = ASCII char

DOS386,

In short, it escapes following character that is special for cmd.exe (i.e. redirection, pipe, and so on). ss64.com contains a lot of information about NT console shell and utilities.

lol, looks like bytes/char/wchar are the more crappy problems of all times in computer science...

exactlly the same problem with cross platform charsets, and linear data transferts among offices. always the same problem, they don't understand the basics of software (8bits = 1byte = 256 possible values), then, they try to reinvent it with strange features, using still made developments as underlayers....

yeah, software elitism is dead, now everybody can claim as project manager, even if he don't get anything about the real nature of digital data processing. then, one will assume ^blah means blah cause ^b means unicode crap.

it is a real cure to code in this context.

yesterday, i installed (on the job's machine,... not my own machine, never!!!!!) CMAKE (10MB) + java7 (125MB) + maven (6MB) + active python (46MB) just in order to compile a 2MB C++ application with the new build method... and i am just disgusted to use java7 just to run maven, just to load and compile dependencies.... ho my god... where dependencies are just supposed to be dynamic libs in the end... official software world disguss me.

Well, you can surround it with quotation marks in the command line, that is, literaly writing "^blah" instead of ^blah.

> the letter "b" with "^" above it does not exist

Same effect with "^crap" or "^exitus" despite letters "c" and "e" with roof do exist.

> you can surround it with quotation marks in the command line

I know ... then I get roof intact, but quotes also included.

> ss64.com contains a lot of information about NT console shell

I see