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Doc material on Windows and triple-double-quoting (#595)

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* Windows doc re DSL quoting

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* Windows doc re DSL quoting
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@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ The Windows-support code within Miller makes effort to support Linux/Unix/MacOS-
.. image:: pix/miller-msys-complex.png
One workaround is to use MSYS2. Another is to put more complex DSL expressions into a file:
Single quotes with ``&&`` or ``||`` inside are fundamentally unhandleable within Windows; there is nothing Miller can do here as the Windows command line is split before Miller ever receives it.
One workaround is to use MSYS2. Another workaround is to put more complex DSL expressions into a file:
.. image:: pix/miller-windows-complex-workaround.png
A third workaround is to replace ``"`` with ``"""``, then ``'`` with ``"``:
.. image:: pix/miller-windows-triple-double-quote.png

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@ -34,6 +34,12 @@ The Windows-support code within Miller makes effort to support Linux/Unix/MacOS-
.. image:: pix/miller-msys-complex.png
One workaround is to use MSYS2. Another is to put more complex DSL expressions into a file:
Single quotes with ``&&`` or ``||`` inside are fundamentally unhandleable within Windows; there is nothing Miller can do here as the Windows command line is split before Miller ever receives it.
One workaround is to use MSYS2. Another workaround is to put more complex DSL expressions into a file:
.. image:: pix/miller-windows-complex-workaround.png
A third workaround is to replace ``"`` with ``"""``, then ``'`` with ``"``:
.. image:: pix/miller-windows-triple-double-quote.png

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* number-formatting page
* windows &&/|| note
o note "true&&false" vs 'true && false'; & " ... """...""" ..."
* check <-> manpage/olh sections & doc6 sections
* fill out: