Jason Orendorff jason at jorendorff.com
Wed Dec 19 17:18:18 EST 2001

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> os.system("copy c:\a.txt c:\b.txt")

Try this:
  os.system("copy c:\\a.txt c:\\b.txt")

As in C, Java, or Perl,
\a is a beep; \b is a backspace; and \\ is a backslash.

## Jason Orendorff    http://www.jorendorff.com/

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