Message-ID: <3BA06E39.6A8F50A5@earthlink.net> From: Martin Ambuhl Organization: Nocturnal Aviation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en,zh-CN,fr,de-CH,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: error message" Unknown escape sequence" References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 14 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:26:48 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.246.111.178 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT earthlink DOT net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1000369608 209.246.111.178 (Thu, 13 Sep 2001 01:26:48 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 01:26:48 PDT X-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 01:23:53 PDT (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com > Johny wrote: > > Hi , > I get this error message when I tried to compile my program. Any body > has any idea what it means? Please don't hide your question in the subject line. There are mail and news readers that do not display it as part of the message display. For those people: > error message" Unknown escape sequence" It means, strangely enough, that you used an unknown escape sequence, such as the \c in foo = fopen("\crap","rb");