Microsoft KB Archive/21742

“Illegal Character in Input File” with MAKEPRD

PSS ID Number: Q21742 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

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The following error message indicates that an improper character has been encountered in the text file being converted to a printer-driver file with the MAKEPRD utility:

Illegal char x in input file, Error occurred at line:x in input file

The first “x” in the message is the illegal character, and the second “x” is the line number in the internal numbering system used by the MAKEPRD utility. The “x” does not refer to the line number in the text file.

The message could appear for one of the following reasons:


 * 1) An extraneous character (for example, a space or a period) exists somewhere in the text file.
 * 2) The text is not in proper syntax at some place in the file.
 * 3) Since remapping characters is a common reason for modifying a printer driver, there is an error in a Character Translation Table. For example, the Chfirst value is not the same as the starting character in the table (that is, Chfirst is 128 and the starting character is 127).

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