Date:         Mon, 11 Apr 2005 00:10:43 -0700
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From:         RolandRB <rolandberry@HOTMAIL.COM>
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Subject:      Re: Vanishing backslashes (\)
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If you are running on a Unix/Linux platform then a slash "\" is an
escape character that signifies that the character following it is to
be interpreted literally and not have a meaning. I suspect that this is
going on and the escape character is simply being dropped. Try putting
these path names in quotes.