// if E:\mindprod is a directory, then these
// four different ways of specifying it are
// all equivalent in Windows.
// You can use / or \ (coded as \\)
// You can optionally have a trailing / or \.
File dir1 = new File ( "E:\\mindprod" );
File dir2 = new File ( "E:\\mindprod\\" );
File dir3 = new File ( "E:/mindprod" );
File dir4 = new File ( "E:/mindprod/" );