I believe the correct workaround to the unavoidable quoting on SBCL would be to use CMD /C /S which should remove one layer of quoting.

But I'm not sure I have time to setup a Windows development environment at this point (I managed to install a Windows dual boot on my computer, though! Is there a way to run that into a virtual machine?)

-#f

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016, 13:59 Robert Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.net> wrote:
I see this in test-run-program:

#+(and sbcl os-windows)
(leave-test "SBCL won't let us pass unquoted arguments to cmd.exe" 0)

#-(and sbcl os-windows)
(progn
 (DBG "Testing echo ok 1 via run-program as a string")
 (assert-equal "ok 1"
               (dewindowize (run-program "echo ok 1" :output '(:string
:stripped t)))))


If we know that SBCL on Windows won't let us pass unquoted arguments to
cmd.exe, should we raise a NOT-IMPLEMENTED-ERROR on that combination,
and check for it in the test?

Thanks,
r