Looking at the last few published versions, release and prerelease, I see that lines are bounded in shell.c as is normal for *Nix systems, with a single ASCII linefeed character. (or \\n in your parlance) Looking at the shell.c produced on my Windows machine using the Fossil repository for SQLite, I see that its lines are bounded by a CR LF sequence (\\r\\n) as is normal on the platform. This makes me wonder what strange combination of repository movement and build platform has led to your strange line bounds. Perhaps you should say, just in case this is actually a fixable problem rather than something quirky and unlikely to repeat under normal conditions.