Problem running ghc-4.02 on Win-NT 4.0

[Brian Rogoff]

Hi,
        Pentium II box, downloaded the self-extracting archive. Cygnus
B20.1 bash shell. Perl 5.003_07, located in c:/perl/bin. 

Any Haskell code I try to compile yields the error message

<stdin>:0:25: Character literal '{-# LINE 1 "main.hs" -}' too long
<stdin>:0:25:  on input: "'"

Any idea why this happens? I followed the install instructions exactly. 

-- Brian