When the *sum family of programs are given a filename that contains
a backslash, a spurious backslash is given at the beginning of the
output line.
This appears to be a feature, since it's explicitly in the code.
However it isn't documented, which can cause surprises for programs
that expect to parse the output of *sum.
--
Geoff Kuenning [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/
Have I mentioned that I hate computers?
-- Drew Bernat, HMC '99
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