Then it may be a feature, it may be a bug -- I have no way of knowing, as I have no familiarity with command-line interpreters other than those for VMS and Windows.
Philip Taylor -------- On 01/02/2017 19:41, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: >> I would imagine that something in your command-line interpreter >> is silently absorbing naked back-slashes ... >> > > I am using: > > GNU bash, version 4.3.46(1)-release (i386-pc-solaris2.11) > ---------------------- > Apostolos Syropoulos > Xanthi, Greece > -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex