>>>Why does this REG file need the double slashes?
>>>
>>>

>>>REGEDIT4
>>>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\EMPS\Parameters]
>>>"AppDirectory"="C:\\FMSRun"
>>>

>>
>>It is a standard convention to use the "\" prefix for several special characters.
>
>"Convention," but is it required?

Required by regedit, which is probably written in c++, where the backslash is an escape character (i.e. the guy most likely to lead a jailbreak :). The usual interpretation is just like in VFP's search/replace dialog: \t for tab, \r for carriage return, \n for line feed... and \\ for \.