Re: The \c escape

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From: Richard A. O'Keefe
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1988 23:08

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In article <8125@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
>  Now it is too late to be mucking around except to
>remedy serious technical errors.  Does \c do that?

Well, \x is technical, serious, and IMHO an error.  \z (*please* not \c)
is a minimal remedy for that botch.

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Subject: Re: The \c escape
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