On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 03:36:15PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> too.  ("A single-quote cannot occur within single-quotes.  A backslash
> cannot be used to escape a single-quote in a single-quoted string.")

Can a single-quote be escaped by putting it inside double-quotes
(inside the single-quotes)?

It seems to work on HP-UX ksh I think. Make's :Q modifier gets this
wrong.
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  from Steve Gombosi, comp.sys.super, 31 Jul 2000 11:22:43 -0600