Re: new module 'system-quote'

[Ben Pfaff]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> It turns out that on native Windows, when going through cmd.exe, it is
> not possible to pass arguments that contains a newline ('\n') or a CR ('\r')
> character: the command gets truncated at such a character. Compared to
> this problem, the handling of the '%' character is easy.

Is there any chance that putting a newline or CR in an
environment variable, then using %varname%, would allow one to
embed such a character?  I don't have a native Windows system to
try this on.