On Friday 02 April 2004 06:25, Michael James wrote:

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 What, please, does the back-slash mean,  as in  <  --verbose \ >  ??

If it's the last character on a line it escapes the end_of_line,  so the line continues on to the next. Useful in 80 character emails.

ie all three lines are actually one

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