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In article <lg8a4gINN3ot@boogie.cs.utexas.edu>, swisher@cs.utexas.edu (Janet M. Swisher) writes:
> In GSWIN (and GS for DOS, for that matter), when I type something
> like:
> 
> (c:\mypapers\sample.ps) run
> 
> I get an /undefinedfilename error, and the operand stack shows:
> 
> 	(c:mypaperssample.ps) (r)
> 
> This does not happen if I specify the filename on the command line, or
> if I use /'s instead of \'s.  The "File Searching" section of USE.DOC
> pretty clearly implies that GS ought to know how to handle \'s.  So
> why is it eating them instead?

Because \ in a PostScript string is similar to \ in a C string; it escapes the
next character. See page 29 of the Red Book, 2nd Edn. What you want is:

(c:\\mypapers\\sample.ps) run

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