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Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 13:23:07 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Quoting in [4N]DOS
In-Reply-To: <199804020200.SAA18650@adit.ap.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980402132247.3207F-100000@is>
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On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> You have to quote ` with the Control-X character. It documents doing this
> from the command prompt, although not in a good place in the manual.

Thanks for the info.

I saw this in the manual, but the wording there implied that this is
only good for interactive work.

The manual also didn't tell whether Ctrl-X can quote *all* of the
special characters, not only `.  Can it?

And, of course, the question of questions: how do you quote Ctrl-X
itself?

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