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From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: What the??
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 14:41:13 -0800
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Peter Cooper wrote:

> I downloaded all the stuff for DJGPP and unzipped them and they created
> their own directories like /BIN /LANG etc.. so I decided to write a program.
> so...
> 
> #include "iostream.h"
> void main(void) {
>         cout << "hi!\n";
> }
> 
> and went                   gcc file.cc
> The error came back:       IOSTREAM.H Cannot find filename or directory

This is because iostream.h is not in the current directories.  iostream.h is a
standard header, and so should be included as

    #include <iostream.h>

> so the program changed to:
> 
> #include "c:\djgpp\lang\cxx\iostream.h"
> void main(void) {
>         cout << "hi!\n";
> }
> 
> and then after that this error came up..
>                            SOMETHINGELSE.H Cannont find filename or \
> directory

This is because the backslash means special things in a C string.  You need to
escape the strings, as in:

    #include "c:\\djgpp\\lang\\cxx\iostream.h"

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