[Haskell-beginners] Follow up to reference request

[Andrew Wagner]

Alan,
I'd love to help you get started coding in haskell. It sounds like it  
might be easier to do interactively though. Can you get on the  
#haskell channel on IRC? I'm in and out of there as chessguy and will  
be on later tonight.

On Jan 26, 2009, at 5:22 PM, "Alan Cameron" <alan.cameron at iname.com>  
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am indebted to Andrew Wagner for pointing me in the direction of  
> the book
> http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/
> Which I now have time to study. Everything was going fine until I  
> got to the
> section in Getting Started where it gives A Simple Program.
>
> Now as someone who is used to the Windows environment CLI is not my  
> forte.
> Following instructions which appear to be incomplete I created a  
> file of the
> program WC.hs but where should it go?
>
> I tried various places until I reread the :? For the :cd command.
> Ah I said that's what I need to do put it in a folder and change the  
> Dir.
>
> Now I can find the file with the :edit command.
> Did the same with the file quux.txt same place.
>
> Now run the command $ runghc WC < quux.txt
>
> <interactive>:1:0: parse error on input '$'
>
> What have I done wrong or not done?
>
> It does say "at a shell or command prompt" what's that??
>
> I reverted to the installation instructions provided by GHC for  
> Windows.
> 2.2 Installing on Windows
> 2.2.1 Installing GHC on Windows
>
> Checked all that had been done correctly.
>
> Enter the program line 1>
>
> bash$ cat main.hs
> <interactive>:1:0: parse error on input '$'
>
> Now bash looks like a modified prompt??
> So what is happening?
>
> Regards to all and TIA for reply.
>
> Alan Cameron
>
>
>
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