>>>>>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...
Well they'd be the ones who had the KEYS
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
