Re: Control Characters in nroff

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From: bamford
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1987 18:23

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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.

-- 
				Harold Bamford
				AT&T Bell Labs
				IE 2F-524 (312) 416-7397

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Message-ID: <2995@ihlpg.ATT.COM>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!ihlpg!bamford

References: <206@motbos.UUCP>

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!ihlpg!bamford
From: bamford@ihlpg.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Control Characters in nroff
Message-ID: <2995@ihlpg.ATT.COM>
Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 13:23:41 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  5 13:23:41 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Mar-87 00:30:59 EST
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Summary: escape sequence in *roff

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