diff --git a/docs/file-transfer-protocol.rst b/docs/file-transfer-protocol.rst
index dec45392d..01bee30be 100644
--- a/docs/file-transfer-protocol.rst
+++ b/docs/file-transfer-protocol.rst
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ File paths
     path must be no longer than 255 UTF-8 bytes. Total path length must be no
     more than 4096 bytes. Paths from Windows systems must use the forward slash
     as the separator, the first path component must be the drive letter with a
-    colon. For example: :file:`C:\some\file.txt` is represented as
+    colon. For example: :file:`C:\\some\\file.txt` is represented as
     :file:`/C:/some/file.txt`. For maximum portability, the following
     characters *should* be omitted from paths (however implementations are free
     to try to support them returning errors for non-representable paths)::