dispense with some wacky escape sequences;

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/games/banner/banner.6 b/games/banner/banner.6
index abe6f8ce9a9..2cc24e40800 100644
--- a/games/banner/banner.6
+++ b/games/banner/banner.6
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: banner.6,v 1.12 2007/05/31 19:19:16 jmc Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: banner.6,v 1.13 2010/03/26 19:30:40 jmc Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"	@(#)banner.6	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 26 2010 $
 .Dt BANNER 6
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ with no breaks between the pages.
 .Sh AUTHORS
 Mark Horton
 .Sh BUGS
-Several ASCII characters are not defined, notably <, >, [, ], \\,
+Several ASCII characters are not defined, notably <, >, [, ], \e,
 ^, _, {, }, |, and ~.
 Also, the characters ", ', and & are funny
 looking
diff --git a/games/sail/sail.6 b/games/sail/sail.6
index a43e5cc1c7d..44754892181 100644
--- a/games/sail/sail.6
+++ b/games/sail/sail.6
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: sail.6,v 1.17 2009/07/09 10:14:41 eric Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: sail.6,v 1.18 2010/03/26 19:30:40 jmc Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: sail.6,v 1.4 1995/04/22 10:37:24 cgd Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1988, 1993
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"	@(#)sail.6	8.2 (Berkeley) 12/30/93
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 9 2009 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 26 2010 $
 .Dt SAIL 6
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -189,15 +189,15 @@ could point forward, but their
 effect was small compared to a 68-gun broadside of 24 or 32 pounders.
 The guns bear approximately like so:
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
-       \\
+       \e
         b----------------
     ---0
-        \\
-         \\
-          \\     up to a range of ten (for round shot)
-           \\
-            \\
-             \\
+        \e
+         \e
+          \e     up to a range of ten (for round shot)
+           \e
+            \e
+             \e
 .Ed
 .Pp
 An interesting phenomenon occurred when a broadside was fired
@@ -434,9 +434,9 @@ Battle sail speeds are given first,
 and full sail speeds are given in parentheses.
 .Bd -literal
 				 0 1(2)
-				\\|/
+				\e|/
 				-^-3(6)
-				/|\\
+				/|\e
 				 | 4(7)
 				3(6)
 .Ed