Re: Problem with backslash/newline on DOS/Windows/OS2/etc.?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:18:30 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden
> From: "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden>
> 
>   ez> In that case, I think this feature needs to be turned off on
>   ez> non-Posix platforms.  It will never work reliably; with most
>   ez> shells available on Windows, it will simply fail, AFAIK.  At the
>   ez> very least, it should be turned off when the shell is not a Unixy
>   ez> shell.
> 
> OK, well, can someone please suggest the best way to manage this in the
> code?  Should we use the check for unixy_shell?

Yes, I think testing unixy_shell would be okay.