Current CVS having a problem with NTEmacs paths

[David Abrahams]

I have this fragment in my .emacs, which is causing an error with the
latest CVS:

  (if (not (file-directory-p backup-file-dir))
        (make-directory backup-file-dir))


If you look at the stack backtrace:

  make-directory-internal("c:OCUME~1/dave/LOCALS~1/Temp/emacs~")
  make-directory("C:\\DOCUME~1\\dave\\LOCALS~1\\Temp/emacs~")

you can see that the backslashes are not getting interpreted
correctly, and in particular the first one is getting dropped.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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