Appended is a temporary fix for the multiline problem.
diff --git a/job.c b/job.c
index e4a40ac..da6a877 100644
--- a/job.c
+++ b/job.c
@@ -1214,6 +1214,25 @@ start_job_command (struct child *child)
char *end = 0;
#ifdef VMS
argv = p;
+ /* Multiline fix.
+ This (quick) fix is incompatible with the definition of ECHO as
+ 'write sys$$output "', defined in default.c. In my opinion that was
+ a hack, anyway, and supporting multilines breaks it: obviously, the hack
+ relied on VMS/DCL to tolerate a missing, matching '"' at the end of the
+ line and now with multilines and ECHO the end of the line is within a string! */
+ {
+ char *s = p;
+ int instring=0;
+ while (*s) {
+ if (*s=='"')
+ instring = !instring;
+ else if (*s=='\n' && !instring) {
+ end=s;
+ break;
+ }
+ ++s;
+ }
+ }
#else
argv = construct_command_argv (p, &end, child->file,
child->file->cmds->lines_flags[child->command_line - 1],
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