Newbie - help in opening and reading a file from >>>

[Jerome Chan]

In article <TnsD4.31426$X4.937735 at news1.rdc1.on.wave.home.com>, "Dan 
Howard" <va3ma at rac.ca> wrote:

> Hi
> I've just installed 1.5 on my Windows 98Se system
> I'm trying to execute the following-
> >>>f=open('C:\Autoexec.bat')
> and I get a no such directory or file error
> Is there some parameter or path that I must set?
>  Would apprecaite any clues...
> Dan
> 
> 

You must escape the \?