Re: How do you display a back-slash in nroff?

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From: Bob Peirce #305
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 1990 23:58

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I started getting answers back almost before this item went out!

Thanks to everybody who told me to try \e.  This works.  I am
ashamed to say I did not see this in the manual, although I
_THOUGHT_ I had reviewed it carefully.

-- 
Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA				  412-471-5320
...!uunet!pitt!investor!rbp			rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us

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From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
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Subject: Re: How do you display a back-slash in nroff?
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Date: 7 Aug 90 23:58:58 GMT
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