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

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> No, it's not supposed to be escaped.  At least not in any version up to 4.0 
> it wasn't.  There are no backslash escapes being processed on single-quoted 
> strings in gnuplot, period.  See 'help syntax'.  Thus this
> behaviour:
>
>> gnuplot> set title 'C:\'; foo' ; show title
>>         title is "C:\\'; foo", offset at ((character units) 0, 0, 0)
>
> Is a bug, and has been as long as it was present in the program.
>
> In other words: \-escape sequences in "" can become special characters like 
> LF, TAB or the backslash itself, whereas \ characters in '' become literal \ 
> characters, which 'show' doubles up since it uses "" strings.
>
> Not inside single-quoted strings.

Exactly. Thus, 'C:\tmp' is really C:\tmp and not C:<TAB>tmp, and '\' is 
really \ (1 char) and not anything else.

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