pgman@candle.pha.pa.us wrote:
>...
> As far as echo, I think you are right that the Win32 command processor
> is the one handling that, but I assumed the backslashes were handled by
> the Makefile, hence the need for \#.
Sort of. It looks to me like \# is handled by make when reading the
Makefile, resulting in a # which is not the start of a Makefile comment.
But it also seems that \ followed by anything else is not handled specially,
but simply passed through to the command.