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    Neither of these functions returns `\n'.  And `\n' is not an
    alternative for a literal newline.

I am not sure what distinction you're making.  `\n' is alternative
Lisp syntax for a literal newline.  Which one we use in writing a Lisp
string is arbitrary, except when we're talking about print functions
which use one or the other.