Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 16:33:22 -0800 (PST)
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: Quoting in [4N]DOS
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
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At 01:23  4/2/1998 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>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.

Yeah, it's not very clear.

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

It worked on all the ones I tried (< > | " and the separator character, ^ by
default).

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

Ctrl-X Ctrl-X. 

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net