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

OK, now we need a bit of a plot here... and let's say we split the proceeds 50-50 (for the book and the movie, and the game and the soap opera and whatever comes).