On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:47:06AM -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> At 10:14 PM -0800 3/24/03, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>
> >So what can I use to escape a newline in a shell commmand that will work in
> >both MMS/K and Perl's ``?
>
> IIRC, our system() and backquotes implementation does not handle
> continuation lines at all. That's why everything has to be broken up
> into one-liners, and short ones at that.
Ugg ugg ugg and triple ugg.
I'll hack something together to deal with it then. :(
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