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> From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 15:38:50 +0200
> 
> >      The variable `system-type' determines the kind of quoting performed.
> 
> Yes.  But maybe people would like to know which values are useful
> values.  So it could say that there are three cases: ms-dos,
> windows-nt, and everything else.

There are more values that just these two.  We should document all of
the possible values, but I think we should do that in the doc string
of system-type.  Then shell-quote-argument could simply refer to that.