X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Message-ID: <4111BC57.4723B4BC@yahoo.com> From: CBFalconer Organization: Ched Research X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: parse error References: <1091652828 DOT 239126 AT proxy2 DOT srv DOT ualberta DOT ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 23 Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 05:32:54 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.76.134.180 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT worldnet DOT att DOT net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1091683974 12.76.134.180 (Thu, 05 Aug 2004 05:32:54 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 05:32:54 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com John Hanley wrote: > ... snip ... > > I found the problem. It makes sense that it was a parse error > because it was one "}" short. However, it was somewhere in the > middle of my code, not at the end. The error message really > threw me off. But that's ok. At least I found the problem. You multi-posted this to various groups. You should have cross-posted the original enquiry to the same groups, with follow-ups set to the one group of primary interest. I think it did little harm this time, but using the appropriate technique in future will avoid both long interminable threads and the nuisance of seeing the same query many times. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?