Unable to start WinHugs

[Sigbjorn Finne]

Hi,

this one is a bit mysterious. I managed to reproduce it a while ago with a
beta
version of XP (and fixed it by simply re-installing Hugs), but am unable to
reproduce
it now when upgrading a vanilla Win 98 install with the RTM version of XP.

In the less-than-likely event that it'll tell me something interesting,
could you
send me a copy of the Prelude.hs WinHugs is failing on + line number?

thanks,
--sigbjorn

btw, It is also worth checking that the uninstall completely deletes the
Hugs98/ directory before installing Hugs98 again.


----- Original Message -----
From: YH Chen
To: hugs-bugs@haskell.org
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 13:08
Subject: Unable to start WinHugs


I recently upgraded from WinME to WinXP, and in doing so, I discovered that
I can't start up WinHugs anymore.  Whevever I try to do so, the Hugs
interpreter window shows up as normal, but with:  ERROR - Illegal character
escape sequence "\W" .   A Hugs popup shows up:  FATAL ERROR:  Unable to
locate prelude.

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling Hugs (I'm using the 12/01 version)
but to no avail.

I hope the info provided will help you resolve what's wrong and let me run
WinHugs again.  If you need any more info, please feel free to contact me
via this email address.