Re: [Sheflug] Issue File

["Chris J" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi,
>
> Can anyone tell me why in /etc/issue backslashes aren't allowed. I'm
> trying to draw an ASCII picture for the boot up of my LFS system and I
> can't use backslashes.
>
> Darrell

Try using "\\" to specify a backslash ... this is untested, but I recall that
there are some special escapes you can put in an issue file to print things
like tty, kernel revision etc, which start with a backslash (eg, \t). Usually
when backslash is used as an escape character, saying '\\' will print what
you want.

If that doesn't work, then I don't know without reading the man pages :)

Chris...

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