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Old 06-25-2009
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We need to avoid "echo" because the \t contained in the string becomes a tab!
Try this.

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
print -R "c:\test\sample\programs"|sed -e 's/\\/\\\\/g'

c:\\test\\sample\\programs