>>>>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...

So, looking at it from that perspective, one might have to assume that a control character would be a prison guard...