Formatting a floppy using the system command

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At Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 04:32:19PM -0500 or thereabouts, 
suspect Don Coleman was observed uttering:
> other than my *clerk screen moving up one record.  If I:
> 
> System "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\FORMAT A: & pause";end I get a createprocess
> failed from Windows.

Don't you have to escape the "\" characters?

system "c:\\window\\system32\\format a: & pause";end

m->
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