Korn Shell and the EVAL command

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Hello,

I have a shell script that processes a Microsoft like PATH environment variable. I want to add some folders to it.

export current=`eval $NTPATH`
export additional=`cat path.lst`
export NTPATH=$current\;$additional
echo $NTPATH

The first statement fails when either a blanc appears in $NTPATH or the combination '\c' or '\b' (like in ...\bin or ...\common)

Does anybody know how I can avoid this special character substitution on the first command ?

Best regards,

Luc