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From: egw.weakm@p3.lanl.gov (Eric Wasserman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Simple Think C question
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Date: 27 Feb 91 01:07:51 GMT
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In article <669@newave.UUCP> john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III) writes:
>I'm working my way through the "Macintosh C Programming Primer" and I've
>bombed on the Hello, World #2 program.  I get the error "invalid 
declaration"
>when I precompile.  The offending line seems to be:
        ^^^^^^^^^^
> 
>   WindowPtr   gHelloWindow;

You aren't really trying to 'PREcompile' a .c file are you?
Precompile is a special ThinkC speedup feature which you 
probably shouldn't worry about using until you get yourself
oriented in the ThinkC environment.  Try plainold "Compile".
Sorry if this was just a typo on your part.

Eric
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