>From memory .. this is what I can recall:
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>A single backslash at the beginning tell it to disable the item and not show the backslash.
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>If you really want a backslash to mean a backslash, you have to use two backslashes (\\).
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>If you really want a backslash AND you want it disabled, you have to use this: \]\\
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I got around the problem by creating a cursor from the array returned by APRINTERS() and making the cursor's alias the RowSource of the list box. Items with backslashes in the first character disable the item only if the RowSource is an array.