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Subject: Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?
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> Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:45:43 +0200
> 
> Clearly, ARGS is (except on VMS) _not_ a list of separate arguments,
> but rather strings pasted together with spaces.

Yes, as any API to `system' should do.

> So I don't understand how to apply your remark
> "start-process-shell-command is not system(3).".

That remark should be understood as follows:
start-process-shell-command is a wrapper around `system', but it isn't
`system' itself.  So it doesn't need to accept only one string, but
eventually it will concatenate them all.

Apologies for being unclear.