🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <19950731.232859.34@callan.demon.co.uk>, simon@callan.demon.co.uk (Simon Callan) writes:
|> I'm not sure if this is the best newsgroup for this, but since I got the
|> info from the FAQ, it seem reasonable.
|> 
|> I am trying to convert a large amount o2 Modula-2 to C, using the MTC
|> program running under DOS and DJGPP. I have compiled MTC, with no
|> problems, but I am having problems running it.
|> 
|> I have a simple test program :
|> 
|> IMPLEMENTATION MODULE test;
|> 
|> VAR
|>   A : CARDINAL;
|> BEGIN
|>   A:=1;
|> END test.
|> 
|> When I try to run MTC on this, I get the following result:
|> 
|> D:\TEST>mtc test.mod
|> go32 version 1.12.maint1 Copyright (C) 1994 DJ Delorie
|> test.mod:
|>   8,  1: Error        illegal character
|>   1 error(s)
|> D:\TEST>
|> 
|> does anyone know what is going wrong with this?

The main problem is that you are converting from a good language into a
cruddy one.  :-)  Actually, I think the message is referring to line 8
character 1.  Since there appears to be only 7 lines perhaps you have some
garbage at the end of your file?
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