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authorgiraffedata <giraffedata@9d0c8265-081b-0410-96cb-a4ca84ce46f8>2015-04-05 01:14:36 +0000
committergiraffedata <giraffedata@9d0c8265-081b-0410-96cb-a4ca84ce46f8>2015-04-05 01:14:36 +0000
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parent3a6c162f56d9ca9df350bda2ffc003f6777ec4c1 (diff)
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Deal with backslash
git-svn-id: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/netpbm/code/trunk@2449 9d0c8265-081b-0410-96cb-a4ca84ce46f8
-rwxr-xr-xbuildtools/makeman1
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diff --git a/buildtools/makeman b/buildtools/makeman
index 100ad580..bcc65cff 100755
--- a/buildtools/makeman
+++ b/buildtools/makeman
@@ -210,6 +210,7 @@ def makeman(name, file, indoc):
     # Special characters
     indoc = indoc.replace("&quot;", "'")
     indoc = indoc.replace("&nbsp;", "\\ ")
+    indoc = indoc.replace("\", "\\\\")
     # Tables
     indoc = re.sub(' *<table[^>]*>.*', ".TS", indoc)
     indoc = re.sub(" *</table>.*", ".TE", indoc)
diff --git a/doc/HISTORY b/doc/HISTORY
index 50394aac..a9daac86 100644
--- a/doc/HISTORY
+++ b/doc/HISTORY
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ CHANGE HISTORY
 
 not yet  BJH  Release 10.71.00
 
+              makeman: deal properly with backlash in source.  Thanks Willem
+              van Schaik <willem@schaik.com>.
+
 15.03.29 BJH  Release 10.70.00
 
               Add st4topgm, pgmtost4.