Re: Cannot change to 'C:\' (root) on Windows

[Juergen W. <wie...@fr...>]

Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> Juergen Wieferink wrote:
> This is clearly a non-documented, completely surprising feature.  If
> that doesn't qualify it as a bug, I don't see what could.

If you define "non-documented, completely surprising feature" as a
bug, then it's indeed a bug.

> > The behaviour you show is exactly the same as raw strings in
> > python. [With the exception that gnuplot silently terminates strings
> > at the end of the line.]  Really.  Backslashes are used as escape
> > characters and nevertheless taken into the string.
>
> Not at the same time they aren't.  It's either-or.  Either your in a
> double-quoted string, then backslashes are used as escape characters, or
> you're in a single-quoted string, then they're kept as they are.  It's
> as simple as that --- or at least it's supposed to be.

The latter.  But how should one know that.  I agree it should be
fixed, though.


Juergen