ksh Backslash

The following character sequences are treated specially by the kprint Command unless given the -r option:

\a alert (bell, ASCII 007)
\b backspace
\c suppresses terminating newline, like `-n' option
\f form feed
\n newline
\r carriage return
\t tab
\v vertical tab
\\ backslash
\nnn (1 to 3 octal digits) the 8-bit character whose ASCII code is nnn

Backslash is also a quoting character. To echo a form feed, you can use one of the following:

(dbx) kprint -n \\f
(dbx) kprint -n '\f'
(dbx) kprint -n "\f"