stripslashes() strips too much...

Hello everyone, I've written a small forum. I addslashes() on the message before it goes into the database. I stripslashes() before the message is displayed on the page. That all works fine. But if I have a message like this: "It's in C:\Windows" there's trouble. The \ gets striped out, so it's then "It's in C:Windows"; Does anyone know anyway to get around this? I've been thinking about it, but can't come up with anything. Thanks, Tyler Longren Captain Jack Communications tyler@captainjack.com www.captainjack.com