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From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: djgcc: Parse error before character 032?
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Date: 25 Mar 91 01:20:50 GMT
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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
[...]
>
> This is the ^Z problem, right?  Funny, my version of vi doesn't
> put no steenkin' ^Z's at the end of my files.
> 
> Either find an editor that doesn't put out ^Z's, or find a utility
> to fix ^Z'd files.  I have one if you don't find one elsewhere.

I think your solution has its phase inverted.  He needs a file _with_ a
^Z appended.  Since that's the only way to terminate a 'copy con foo',
there must be a ^Z at the end of the file that worked.
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