From: oharboe <oharboe@b42882b7-edfa-0310-969c-e2dbd0fdcd60>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 08:54:07 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Added Tcl escaping to FAQ
X-Git-Tag: v0.1.0~187
X-Git-Url: https://review.openocd.org/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3e3c313de342698efcfc4f5c7baa9ee2daf652d3;p=openocd.git

Added Tcl escaping to FAQ

git-svn-id: svn://svn.berlios.de/openocd/trunk@1130 b42882b7-edfa-0310-969c-e2dbd0fdcd60
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diff --git a/doc/openocd.texi b/doc/openocd.texi
index 98ad644f77..4fb606293d 100644
--- a/doc/openocd.texi
+++ b/doc/openocd.texi
@@ -2093,6 +2093,22 @@ halt
 @chapter FAQ
 @cindex faq
 @enumerate
+@item Why does not backslashes in paths under Windows doesn't work?
+
+OpenOCD uses Tcl and a backslash is an escape char. Use @{ and @}
+around Windows filenames. 
+
+@smallexample
+> echo \a
+
+> echo @{\a@}
+\a
+> echo "\a"
+
+>
+@end smallexample
+To 
+
 @item OpenOCD complains about a missing cygwin1.dll.
 
 Make sure you have Cygwin installed, or at least a version of OpenOCD that