Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > 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? > > Not surprisingly, it doesn't work, at least in my testing.
Yup, that's what I found out as well. In a Cygwin shell I did: $ export NEWLINE=' ' $ cmd.exe /c 'printf "%s\n" "foo%NEWLINE%bar"' and got foo Bruno
