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From: pls@sortac.UUCP (Pat Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.text
Subject: Re: nroff eats my esc codes
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Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 14:59:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 29 14:59:59 1987
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In article <4219@sunybcs.UUCP>, twomey@sunybcs.uucp (Bill Twomey) writes:
> Is there any way of letting nroff pass escape through
> to the final document?  I'm trying to play with an HP LaserJet,
> and I need assorted coses preceeded by escape, \033.
> I have tried putting them on lines with \!, which is supposed
> to copy through the contents of the line.  I have had no luck.

If you have DWB2, you can easily add special characters in your
"/usr/lib/nterm/tab.???" file and then call on them in your
document as "\(whatever".  This also keeps your document from
being hard-wired to the LaserJet.