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From: artp@motbos.UUCP
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Subject: Control Characters in nroff
Message-ID: <206@motbos.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Mar-87 18:04:57 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  3 18:04:57 1987
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Does anyone out there have experience in embedding non-printing ASCII characters
in an nroff file ?  For example, the NEC Laser Printers use an ASCII FS (Form
Separator) character to control various font / print modes.  I have had no
problems embedding an ASCII ESC (Escape), but the FS is stripped out.

I have tried using translations (.tr), escape character redefinition (.ec),
multiple backslashes, \&, etc. All result in the FS being stripped out of
the output stream.
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Regards,
Art
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