From: owsim AT emma DOT ruc DOT dk (Ole Winther) Message-Id: <9612111400.AA05959@emma.ruc.dk> Subject: what about the "\" To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 15:00:40 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 260 Well some small problems I where trying this. char* str; str = new char[5]; strcpy( str, "C:\PT" ); and printing this gives ( C:PT ), the "\" is stripped. when compiling the programs there complains about and unknown escape char. How to do it? Ole Winther