Re: Problems compiling HDirect 0.17

On 03-Jan-2001, Eric Allen Wohlstadter wrote:

When I try to compile hdirect on cygwin on my NT I get a lot of complaints from ghc about bad tokens. Particularly the use of "\" to continue a line. For some reason it doesn't see it as the line continuation character.

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