Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gloria.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!rochester!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.bugs Subject: Re: Nroff doesn't print back-slashes Message-ID: <579@gloria.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 21:36:32 EDT Article-I.D.: gloria.579 Posted: Fri Oct 5 21:36:32 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Oct-84 21:47:28 EDT References: <251@muddcs.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: SUNY-Buffalo Confuser Science Lines: 9 [Man was not meant to tamper with the unknown.] Displays get diverted, so backslashes go through "copy mode." Crude fix: use \\\\ instead of \\. Sharp fix: use \e. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel