On unix: no problem backslashes are only used as escapes windows: as escapes no problem, for paths, take the next best class for pathbuilding and use it and dou

On unix: no problem backslashes are only used as escapes windows: as escapes no problem, for paths, take the next best class for pathbuilding and use it and double the backslashes at every position it is given to external output(printf, ...)(and double it at every time the output is going through another parsing.