X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Message-ID: <3F7F700C.7A5D5750@incoming.verizon.net> From: vze565qi AT mail DOT verizon DOT net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-CCK-MCD VERIZON473 (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Compiler Problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 29 Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 00:13:16 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.153.254.169 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT verizon DOT net X-Trace: nwrdny03.gnilink.net 1065312796 141.153.254.169 (Sat, 04 Oct 2003 20:13:16 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 20:13:16 EDT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com I make a very simple program called z.c with the contents of: #include int main() { int a, b, c; a = 5; b = 7; c = a + b; printf ("%d + %d = %d\n", a, b, c); return 0; } The compiler prints a myriad of errors: samp.c:1: error: stray '\320' in program samp.c:1: error: stray '\317' in program samp.c:1: error: stray '\21' in program samp.c:1: error: stray '\340' in program samp.c:1: error: stray '\241' in program samp.c:1: error: stray '\261' in program I want to know what I did wrong becuase I'm sort of new to programming. thanks.