Hi there, looks familiar; see http://haskell.org/pipermail/hugs-bugs/2002-March/000658.html for details of how to fix it. hth --sigbjorn ----- Original Message ----- From: Adam Shimali To: hugs-bugs@haskell.org Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 08:06 Subject: problem with WinHugs Hello, I've installed hugs98-Dec2001.msi on Win2000 and WinHugs startup fails due to inablility to find prelude. The other hugs modes seem to work fine. Visible in the interpreter window is the following error message: Error - Illegal character escape sequence "\W" Thanks Adam Shimali