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From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Weirdest compile error I've ever seen
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 13:05:36 CDT
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> I went to compile the source ... got strange pair of compile-time errors
> c:\tmp/cc000091:1: parse error before `.'
> c:\tmp/cc000091:917: malformatted character constant

Do you have 2r1 in your environment variable?  It has been known to cause
this sort of problem by redirecting error messages into the cpp output.
Typically a message about a bad include.