From: "Paul Wishart" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: hello program doesn't work Date: 6 Feb 1999 23:34:41 GMT Organization: Paradise Net Ltd. Customer Lines: 26 Message-ID: <01be5228$e485dc60$e69e60cb@gnome> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: estelle.paradise.net.nz X-Trace: titan.xtra.co.nz 918344081 4694 203.96.152.5 (6 Feb 1999 23:34:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsadmin AT xtra DOT co DOT nz NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Feb 1999 23:34:41 GMT X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Cache-Post-Path: estelle.paradise.net.nz!unknown AT d230 DOT tnt4 DOT paradise DOT net DOT nz X-Cache: nntpcache 2.3.3b4 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com you probably have printf("hello world'); ^ i.e single quote instead of double quote. or else you haven't put in a double quote. Cheerio wrote in article ... > I just downloaded DJGPP and RHIDE today, but I'm having trouble with the > "hello world" program. > > There's something about the program exit code being -1, and a black box at > the bottome says "Unmatched quote character". > > When I switch to the user screen, there's nothing there, so I guess it > didn't work. > > What am I doing wrong? > > Thanks, > Cheerio > > > >