Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 11:02:16 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Oon Lin <sci-okl AT jcu DOT edu DOT au>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Can't MAKE
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On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Oon Lin wrote:

> makefile:2: *** missing separator.  Stop.
> 
> 
> What does that mean ?? It drives me crazy.. I know that make needs real
> tabs in MAKEFILE . Since DOS EDIT doesn't support real tab , I had got VIM
> , which is similiar to VI in UNIX , to write a makefile but the same error
> still appears.

Look at line 2 and try to find that blank.  It must be there, or else 
Make won't have complained.  Use a program that can show you the actual 
ASCII codes of the characters in the file (like `od' from Textutils, or 
the LIST file browser).