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From: bamford@ihlpg.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Control Characters in nroff
Message-ID: <2995@ihlpg.ATT.COM>
Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 13:23:41 EST
Article-I.D.: ihlpg.2995
Posted: Thu Mar  5 13:23:41 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Mar-87 00:30:59 EST
References: <206@motbos.UUCP>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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Summary: escape sequence in *roff

In article <206@motbos.UUCP>, artp@motbos.UUCP ( AEM) writes:
> Does anyone out there have experience in embedding non-printing ASCII
> characters in an nroff file ? 

A line beginning with \! is usually output without any translation. 
Unfortunately, this includes the new-line character.  It sure would be
nice to have a more general solution.

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				Harold Bamford
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