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.
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