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2015-11-15 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Minor edits.
+ * gawk.1: Revise \x to maximum of two digits.
2015-11-04 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
diff --git a/doc/gawk.1 b/doc/gawk.1
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. if \w'\(rq' .ds rq "\(rq
. \}
.\}
-.TH GAWK 1 "May 31 2015" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands"
+.TH GAWK 1 "Nov 15 2015" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands"
.SH NAME
gawk \- pattern scanning and processing language
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -1573,9 +1573,9 @@ Vertical tab.
The character represented by the string of hexadecimal digits following
the
.BR \ex .
-As in ISO C, all following hexadecimal digits are considered part of
+Up to two
+following hexadecimal digits are considered part of
the escape sequence.
-(This feature should tell us something about language design by committee.)
E.g., \fB"\ex1B"\fR is the \s-1ASCII\s+1 \s-1ESC\s+1 (escape) character.
.TP
.BI \e ddd