Link to pictures outside database

[Roy Wasse]

Hello MySQL fanatics,

My problem is the following:

I want to store a filelink in a table, but when I insert values into a column of type 
varchar MySQL kills the slashes in the path.
EG 
when i've created the following table:
create table pictures (
picturelink    varchar(80) not null
);
insert into pictures
values ('c:\pictures\computer.gif);

mysql stores it as c:picturescomputer.gif

I think I'm making a basic mistake, I hope you guys can help me out!

grtz form Holland