I think the reference here is a little mistake. We talk

about \ on the line above the changed line because
Windows uses that.  We then state that FreeBSD does not
use that, but with our Unix Slash (/) in the example.

My feeling is that this should have been the Windows
slash to make it clear that this does not work and
should not be used on FreeBSD (or most other Unixes
for that matter).

Facilitated by:	    Snow B.V.
Found:		    During translations.

en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml

@@ -2205,7 +2205,7 @@ root     5211  0.0  0.2  3620  1724   2  I+    2:09AM   0:00.01 passwd</screen>
       different from &windows; which uses <literal>\</literal> to
       separate file and directory names.  &os; does not use drive
       letters, or other drive names in the path.  For example, one
-      would not type <filename>c:/foo/bar/readme.txt</filename> on
+      would not type <filename>c:\foo\bar\readme.txt</filename> on
       &os;.</para>
 
     <para>Directories and files are stored in a file system.  Each