Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 11:14:06 -0500 (CDT) From: Aaron Ucko Subject: Re: Strange probs when moving from v1 to v2 To: ngh94 AT aber DOT ac DOT uk Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO > Having just downloaded and setup version 2 of the compiler I >tried to compile the latest version of our game and came up with >one very interesting (and frustrating problem). > > It comes down to this, any file I make (normal c, header file or >even GAS .s files) I get the error (roughly) > >parse error line x before character 032 Well, 032 means the character whose octal representation is 32; in other words, a ^Z. Certain DOS editors like to insert a ^Z at the end of every file; if a program (e.g. GCC) is not expecting them, it will complain. -- Aaron Ucko (ucko AT vax1 DOT rockhurst DOT edu; finger for PGP public key) | httyp! "That's right," he said. "We're philosophers. We think, therefore we am." -- Terry Pratchett, _Small Gods_ | Geek Code 3.0 [for explanation, finger hayden AT mankato DOT msus DOT edu]: GCS/M/S/C d- s: g+ a17 C++(+++)>++++ UL++>++++ P++ L++>+++++ E- W(-) N++(+) K- w--- O M@ V-(--) PS++(+++) PE- Y(+) PGP(+) t(+) !5 X-- R(-) tv-@ b++(+++) DI+ !D(--) G++(+++) e->+++++(*) h!>+ r-(--)>+++ y?