On Sunday 26 February 2006 03:01 am, Udi Finkelstein wrote:
> It's been years since I've used it, but I vaguely recall that the old DOS
> based OrCAD used backslashes (\) after any character you wanted to have an

> R/W
> 
> would be written as R/W\

In OrCAD 7 it would R/\W.

Any individual character preceded by the backslash gets an overbar.
A backslash would be \\.

This avoids the conflicts with the underscore "_" character that is
commonly used in names.  A well place underscore can make the
difference between s_exchange and a sex_change.  Most people
prefer one over the other. :-)

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