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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev5: support colon in filenames
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:08:14 +0100
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> Instead of using '-drive if=none' we could use some other syntax where
> the filename can be passed as separate argument.  Can switches have two
> arguments?  If so, maybe this:
>
>    -hostdrive $file $options

This only works for a single mandatory argument that needs to contain awkward 
characters.

Paul