On Windows systems, if the name of any directory in a filesystem path name begins with a number, the path must be specified with forward slashes, not backward slashes, when listing that path in Oracle GoldenGate input, such as parameter files or commands. This requirement prevents Oracle GoldenGate from interpreting the name as an octal escape sequence. For example, the following paths contain a directory named \2023 that will be interpreted as the octal sequence \202:

C:\deployments\ea
C:\deployments\north\ea
C:\deployments\north\2023\ea

The preceding path can be used with forward slashes as follows:

C:/deployments/ea
C:/deployments/north/ea

For more information, see Support for Escape Sequences.