Subject: Backslashes in #0.welcome_message?

From: [email-masked] (Eric Schwartz)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 09:46:29 -0700

Someone on The TechMOOseum just did a great job on a new welcome screen, but
it seems that the double backslashes embedded in the strings of
#0.welcome_message are not showing up.

Is there a reason for this?  Is there a cure?  I'd really like to use this
for the message:
  ____________                   ______________
 |              |               |              |
 |____      ____|               |____      ____|
      |    |  ___    ___   ________  |    |  ________   ________   ___    ___
      |    | |   |  |   | |    ____| |    | |    ____| |    ____| |   |  |   |
      |    | |   |__|   | |   |___   |    | |   |___   |   |      |   |__|   |
      |    | |    __    | |    ___|  |    | |    ___|  |   |      |    __    |
      |    | |   |  |   | |   |____  |    | |   |____  |   |____  |   |  |   |
      |____| |___|  |___| |________| |____| |________| |________| |___|  |___|
 ___        ___    _____      _____
|    \    /    | /   _   \  /   _   \  _________  ________  __    __  __    __
|      \/      ||   | |   ||   | |   ||    _____||    ____||  |  |  ||   \/   |
|   |\    /|   ||   | |   ||   | |   ||   |_____ |   |___  |  |  |  ||        |
|   |  \/  |   ||   | |   ||   | |   ||_____    ||    ___| |  |  |  ||  |\/|  |
|   |      |   ||   |_|   ||   |_|   | _____|   ||   |____ |  |__|  ||  |  |  |
|___|      |___| \_______/  \_______/ |_________||________||________||__|  |__|
  is a real-time, text-based virtual reality created by staff, volunteers, and
  visitors of The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California, U.S.A.

  Type `connect <Character-name> <password' to connect to your character,
       `connect Visitor'                    to connect as a guest, or
       `@quit'                              to disconnect, either now or later.

Thanks,

Eric / Ahtraddis
whyanext.com 8888

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From: Judy Anderson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 10:03:53 -0700

If you want one backslash to appear in your output text, you must
include *two* in your text string.  It's the nature of quoting.
Similarly, if you want a double quote, you must include backslash
doublequote in your string.  Same idea, only it's more confusing when
the character to be quoted is backslash itself.