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On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Gabriel C Millerd wrote:

>   is there a method of getting rid of the wordwrap character? i often
> cut-n-paste from console to console and the '\' is quite annoying to get
> rid of in the pasted document (especially if it has other '\' characters)

On what OS is that?

On most systems, just marking the text and typing M-w inside Emacs will 
put the marked text (without the continuation character) into the 
clipboard/X selection.