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On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 06:44:45PM +0000, Dave wrote:
>Also, is the d:\ within quotes later in the command erronously
>triggering the nodosfile warning?  I'm not expecting to see it here.

I guess this is a FAQ.  The error message comes from an attempt to do a
file access using an MS-DOS path.  It does not come from random use of
backslashes in the command line.

If you see the error then something is trying to use MS-DOS paths.

cgf

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