From: "Rob Kramer" <robk AT cyberway DOT com DOT sg>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject: Re: Unable to declare FILE pointer
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 21:17:32 +0800
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<snip>
>
>
> // Stuff...
>
> int openinput(char *filename) //open input file
> {
>
>   FILE *fptr; // This is line 33 that returns parse error before `*'
>   int result = SUCCESS;
>
>   if((fptr = fopen(filename, "r")) == NULL) {
>      printf("Cannot open input file: %s\n",filename);
>      result = ERROR;
>
> // more stuff...

Your code is fine. If it doesn't compile, you've either done something nasty
in '// Stuff' or your DJGPP installation is badly broken. Check your
stdio.h, and check with -H if it really gets included.

Cheers,

    Rob