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Print bug with -script? (quotes display)

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• Subject: [mg121220] Print bug with -script? (quotes display)
• From: Alan <alan.isaac at gmail.com>
• Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 18:06:09 -0400 (EDT)
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I am using Mathematica under Windows Vista.  To run Mathematica commands as a script, my understanding is that I should invoke
    math.exe -script <scriptname>
This is working, but if I print a string
    Print["Test"]
it prints surrounded by quotes (as written literally).
I find this highly undesirable: can the quotes be suppressed?

Also, this behavior seems to conflict with the documentation:
http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/PropertiesOfStrings.html 

Is it a bug?

Thanks,
Alan Isaac

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