Literal Characters - Palm PalmTM ZireTM Handheld Handbook

Appendix C Non-ASCII Characters for Login Scripts

Literal characters

The backslash ( \ ) character defines that the next character is transmitted as a literal
character, and is not subject to any special processing ordinarily associated with
that character.
Examples:
\^Includes a caret as part of the string
\<Includes a < as part of the string
\\Includes a backslash as part of the string
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