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From: mcastle@mcs213e.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle {Nexus})
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Subject: Re: djgcc: Parse error before character 032?
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Date: 23 Mar 91 00:34:49 GMT
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In article <valley.669642824@gsbsun> valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty) writes:
>splin@roma.berkeley.edu (Steven Lin) writes:
>>The error doesn't occur if I type in the program using
>>	copy con hello.c
>>but it does occur if I use a word processor (vi and Wordstar) to create
>>hello.c.  Evidently, the word processor is adding some extra characters
>>to the end of the file before writing to disk and gcc is choking on this.
>
>This is the ^Z problem, right?  Funny, my version of vi doesn't
>put no steenkin' ^Z's at the end of my files.

Try this:

ren hello.c ohello.c
type ohello.c > hello.c
del ohello.c

Voila!
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