use \e instead of \\ as a mean to escape \

Just read in a mail from Ingo to tech@

> Using \\ outside macro definitions (i.e., outside the bodies of roff(7)
> .de and similar requests) is almost always wrong even in low-level roff
> code, and \\ must never be used in manual pages.

gmid.1

@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ and enable CGI scripts inside
 $ mkdir docs/cgi
 $ cat <<EOF > docs/cgi/hello
 #!/bin/sh
-printf "20 text/plain\\r\\n"
+printf "20 text/plain\er\en"
 echo "hello world"
 EOF
 $ chmod +x docs/cgi/hello