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

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From: Moellers
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 1990 06:07
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In <1990Aug7.190300.8450@investor.pgh.pa.us> rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes:

>I have read the manual.  I have experimented with .ec and with
>escaping one back-slash with one to many with no success.
>Is there a way?

The manual (nroff/troff Technical Discussion) sais: 

23. Escape Sequences for Characters, Indicators, and Functions
Section	    Escape	Meaning
Reference   Sequence
:	    :		:
10.1	    \e		Printable version of the current escape character
:	    :		:

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