From:	earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject:	Re: Problem with bash
7 Nov 1997 14:37:21 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<19971107221435.9603.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com>
To:	ms AT ley DOT de
Cc:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

The \ character is a special escape character meaning to take the next 
character literally.  Therefore, if you want a \ character to be taken 
literally with no special meaning then you need two, like this \\.

>From: "Michael M. Schmitz" <ms AT ley DOT de>
>To: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>
>Subject: Problem with bash
>Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 17:54:46 +0100
>
>Hi...
>
>I have a small problem with bash. I want to get the special characters 
like
>backslash, at, ... ! But in this shell is it inpossible to get these 
chars ?
>Please help...
>
>Thanks in advance
>
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