Paul,
So actually, both the forward and backward slashes are "special characters". One is used as a COMMENT delimiter between each line of comments created. And the other is used to indicate that the following character is another special character.
And if someone wanted to include either of these slashes into their comment lines they would need to specify the following:
COMMENT=\/ ...to get a forward slash without a new comment line. COMMENT=\\ ...to get a backward slash.
Which would mean the FractInt Document should specify both types of slashes as special characters??
I don't know if that would work. The problem is that when Fractint reads a PAR, the double character combination would have to be there or the slash/back-slash would be misinterpreted. The space character having to be represented by an underscore seems to be an enigma. Maybe Tim can shed some light on this.
Xfractint ignores everything after the back-slash. I'll look into fixing Xfractint after this patch is released.
I did not realize XFractInt was not handling this correctly.
I didn't either, until your message prompted me to see what it did. Jonathan