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Re: [ID 20000405.021] Pod::Man bug

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From:
Todd C. Miller
Date:
April 23, 2000 08:32
Subject:
Re: [ID 20000405.021] Pod::Man bug
Message ID:
200004231532.e3NFWAT07005@xerxes.courtesan.com
In message <ylaeilpu23.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
	so spake Russ Allbery (rra):

> Which backslash?
> 
> windlord:~> nroff -man - | uniq
> \f(CW\*(C`\-u\*(C'\fR
> -u
> 
> That looks exactly right to me....  Maybe your nroff is broken?

Sorry, that must have been a mispaste.  What pod2man produces is:
    \f(CW\*(C`\e-u\*(C'\fR

which does have the backslash in the formatted output.  The
"\\" is replaced by "\\e" by verbatim().

 - todd

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