From:	fprintf AT iname DOT com (Stuart Hall)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Hello world isn't working :(
Date:	Thu, 31 Dec 1998 13:29:46 GMT
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I'm new at this too, but I saw two potential problems...

On Wed, 30 Dec 1998 13:26:54 -0800 (PST), Essidartha Emerald
<essidartha AT yahoo DOT com> so kindly spent valuable time writing:

>
>
>My hello world doen't work :( how can this be??
>
>#include 
^^^^^^^^^^^
What do you want to #include?  My first statements are usually
#include <stdio.h>


>
>int main()
>{
>  printf("Hello world!\n");
>  exit(0);
^^^^^^^^
I believe this function requires another header file (that's what the
#include statements are for).  More simply you could just change this
to:  

return 0;


>}
>
>I got the message:
>
>get program exit code -1 (oxffffffff)
>0 is Zero
>Is there something wrong with the code or is the compiler not working
>right or what did I do wrong?
>
>I have tried it a few times.


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