any shell that doesn't expand \t or \n in it's arguments?

From: jwk (_hate_spam_thunder7_at_xs4all.nl)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: 30 Mar 2004 11:36:48 GMT

I have a program that calls a script to print files, both on windows and
on unix systems.

Because of the windows systems, one argument to the script is like this:

\\host\queue

Depending on the name of queue, this makes the script on unix go
haywire:

\x is '\' 'x', but \t becomes '<tab>'

is there any way to start a shell which prevents this horrible mess?
The only alternative is to rename all my print-queues :-(

Thanks,
Jurriaan 

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