Apologies for all these posts, but I would just like to correct the request query, for some reason gmail mangled the copy/paste and added an unnecessary semicolon. The correct query should be
curl -u username:password -v -X POST -H “Content-type: text/xml” -d “myStoreTestRPFTOCtrueacmefile://C:\myData\test.TOC” “http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/workspaces/acme/coveragestores?configure=all”