Ms sql backslash in named instance 2005

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Hi,
using freetds version 0.82 on solaris 10. tsql fails to connect to sql server named instances as they contain backslashes. Ie.
tsql -S'hostname\instancename' -U joe -P bloggs 
A work around is to remove the backslash in freetds.conf. However, this worked fine in freetds 0.62.4.

The only error is 
'There was a problem connecting to the server'.

Its quite important that we maintain the exisiting functionality.

Has anyone else seen this and is there a solution that would avoid using an unstable version?
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