Please ignore the last message. I didn't know what the quoting
rules for the CI were.
I can solve my problem with the humdinger of a command:
c89 -o hello -DWelcome=\"\"hello\"\" hello.c
which mixes the Unix quoting rules with the MPE quoting rules.
Not ideal. But it works!
Kind Regards,
Mike Kennett
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