Hmmm. Thanks for the reply. However, I cannot find any double backslashes (or forward slashes).

Here's the text from my project's Property Pages, Linker, Command Line for my debug build:

/OUT:"Debug/ERMwb.exe" /INCREMENTAL:NO /NOLOGO /DEBUG /PDB:".\Debug/ERMwb.pdb" /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS /MACHINE:X86 \code5\utils\debug\utils50.lib hei32_3.lib NetEdLib.lib winmm.lib

likewise, I searched my .vcproj file for double backslashes and found nothing.

double Hmmmmmmm.