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Re[2]: documenting Unix command lines; more than one line
Subject:Re[2]: documenting Unix command lines; more than one line From:Janet Valade <Janet_Valade_at_SYSTECH -at- SKYWALKER -dot- SYSTECH -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 9 Sep 1997 10:34:44 PST
>One should also think of the non-power user, the poor smuck who'll end
>up typing in that backslash, and who'll end up getting an
>incomprehensible error message.
Actually, if the user types in that backslash, the command will work. The user
won't get *any* error message.
Janet
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