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Subject: Re: shell-quote-argument: make it behave as if on Unix?
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

>> 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.

shell-quote-argument has only three kinds of behaviors.  If we
document all possible values, then people might worry whether to use
gnu/linux or usg-unix-v, say.

kai
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