This entrypoint is retained as a user convenience: if invoked it
lists all the known BC4J system properties, their default values,
and their ownership.
as the name suggests, removes random irregularities
from exception messages - different versions of JDBC drivers
have slightly different line terminating strategies...sigh
Tnis converts all line separators to \r\n
and always returms \r\n at the end of a message
TODO: retval should be a StringBuffer for efficiency