Author: Inmann Werner
Date: 01:56:30 08/26/99
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On August 26, 1999 at 03:41:27, Pete Galati wrote: >On August 26, 1999 at 03:01:14, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>On August 26, 1999 at 02:29:37, Pete Galati wrote: >> >>>I managed to fix my makefile problem by editing a new one together with Wordpad >>>instead of the Dos editor. I don't understand that at all other than it seems to >>>handle spaces differently. >>> >>>This really bothers me because I detest Wordpad and don't want to have to relie >>>one it for something else, #@~%*! >>> >>>I still don't understand what this is trying to tell me: >>> >>>makefile:33: *** missing separator. Stop. >>> >>>Separator? What's that, a space? doesn't seem to be a - or a : >>> >>>Pete >> >>It's looking for a tab character. Some editors pretend they're sticking in a >>tab when they're really adding spaces. >> >>Dave > >Thanks Dave, I've had that problem with makefiles before and that's always >baffled me. That should be a big help in the future. > >It wrecked the whole last part of my day trying to fix that problem, I couldn't >understand how something I absolutely couldn't see could mess things up so bad. > >I'm quite sure that whoever invented makefiles had little horns growing out of >his head. > >Pete That problems with hidden character occur often. Normaly, I use a hexedit program to detect them :) Another nice thing. I loaded down the code for Nalimov tablebases from Bob`s site. Tried to open it with my loved QC Editor (Microsft Quick C from 1988!!), and it said, "Cannot open binary file". When I open with Dosedit and save, it also works in my QC. Strange things happen in the MS-World! Werner
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