Author: Pete Galati
Date: 07:21:16 08/26/99
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On August 26, 1999 at 04:56:30, Inmann Werner wrote: >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 :) > Thanks, I should maybe big around at Simtel.net and see about finding a hex editor, that's something I've never used. It sounds like I could have used one yesterday though. >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 That's odd, the tablebase somehow changes by being saved? This has to be as a result of how the tablebase was created in the first place. I wonder if it's intended funtion as a tablebase changes at all when you do that. Quick C must be seeing some sort of file attribution that stops it from opening the TB but it dissapears when saved with the Dos editor. Pete
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