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

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> I.e. as of version 4.0, the status actually was that \' is *not* an 
> escape --- both the \ and the ' made it into the string unmodified.
> 
> The actual bug in 4.0 only happens if \' is at the end of the command. 
> It's a side effect of the auto-closing of strings. The convenience 
> feature helper that allows people to type
> 
>     set label 1 'foo

Good point.  I've gotten into the conscious (bad) habit of leaving that second apostrophe off the string.  Maybe gnuplot shouldn't do that.

Dan