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From: jac@paul.rutgers.edu (Jonathan A. Chandross)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: How do you display a back-slash in nroff?
Message-ID: <Aug.7.20.55.43.1990.2452@paul.rutgers.edu>
Date: 8 Aug 90 00:55:43 GMT
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rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
> I have read the manual.  I have experimented with .ec and with
> escaping one back-slash with one to many with no success.
> Is there a way?

You bet.  It's even in the manual.  (Honest!)  Just use:
	\e
this prints the escape character (normally a backslash).  For instance,
	printf("Hello World!\en");
You could also do something evil like:
	\\
in your text, but this is generally a bad idea.


Jonathan A. Chandross
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