diff --git a/build_system.htm b/build_system.htm
index a561ac0c1..81349e842 100644
--- a/build_system.htm
+++ b/build_system.htm
@@ -1249,7 +1249,18 @@ if $(MESSAGE) { ECHO The message is: $(MESSAGE) ; }
characters separated by whitespace from being treated as separate
arguments:
-jam -sMSVCNT="\"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual C++\VC98\"" ...
+jam -sMSVCNT="\"\"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual C++\VC98\"\"" ...
+
+
+ The outer quote is for the shell. The middle quote is for Jam,
+ to tell it to take everything within those quotes literally, and
+ the inner quotes are for the shell again when paths are passed
+ as arguments to build actions. Under NT, it looks a lot more
+ sane to use environment variables before invoking jam when you
+ have to do this sort of quoting:
+
+
+set MSVCNT=""C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual C++\VC98\""
diff --git a/v1/build_system.htm b/v1/build_system.htm
index a561ac0c1..81349e842 100644
--- a/v1/build_system.htm
+++ b/v1/build_system.htm
@@ -1249,7 +1249,18 @@ if $(MESSAGE) { ECHO The message is: $(MESSAGE) ; }
characters separated by whitespace from being treated as separate
arguments:
-jam -sMSVCNT="\"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual C++\VC98\"" ...
+jam -sMSVCNT="\"\"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual C++\VC98\"\"" ...
+
+
+ The outer quote is for the shell. The middle quote is for Jam,
+ to tell it to take everything within those quotes literally, and
+ the inner quotes are for the shell again when paths are passed
+ as arguments to build actions. Under NT, it looks a lot more
+ sane to use environment variables before invoking jam when you
+ have to do this sort of quoting:
+
+
+set MSVCNT=""C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual C++\VC98\""