[RFC] Do not treat '\' as escape character on MinGW Windows hosts

[Joel Brobecker]

> >        (gdb) file c:\\foo\\bar.exe
> >        Reading symbols from c:\foo\bar.exe...done.
> 
> Why not just use a "forward" slash?

It's not always that easy - A lot of times, the user wants to copy/paste
a path that's been printed by another tool.  Also, the typical Windows
user seems to think that he should be able to use a valid Windows path
(which I agree)...

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Joel