Literal Characters - Palm IIIc Handbook

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:
\^
\<
\\
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Includes a backslash as part of the string
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