From: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: why is this giveing me a parse error?
Date: 4 Jul 1997 22:31:21 GMT
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levity AT minn DOT net wrote:
: every time I try to compile this program with djgpp it gives me a parse
: error.  Note that the code I am including is scaled down in an atmpt to
: isolate the problem.

In C you are not allowed to define variables within a block; your
definition of `bmh' must come before any code in the block, i.e. before
the fopen call. C++ does allow you to define variables almost anywhere
though.

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George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford