Postgresql and scripting

I'm trying to create and populate some study tables using a couple of scripts
that came with my 'SQL in 10 minutes' book. This is how I tried to run the
script to create and populate tables in a database named test:

test-# \i create.txt
psql:create.txt:1: ERROR: syntax error at or near "" at character 1

Here is the top of the script:
------------------------------------------------------------
- - S a m s T e a c h Y o u r s e l f S Q L i n 1 0 M i n u t e
s

- - h t t p : / / w w w . f o r t a . c o m / b o o k s / 0 6 7 2 3 2 5 6 6
7 /

- - E x a m p l e t a b l e c r e a t i o n s c r i p t s f o r Po
s t g r e S Q L .

------------------------------------------------------------

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

- - C r e a t e C u s t o m e r s t a b l e

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

C R E A T E T A B L E C u s t o m e r s

(

c u s t _ i d c h a r ( 1 0 ) N O T N U L L ,

c u s t _ n a m e c h a r ( 5 0 ) N O T N U L L ,

c u s t _ a d d r e s s c h a r ( 5 0 ) ,

c u s t _ c i t y c h a r ( 5 0 ) ,

c u s t _ s t a t e c h a r ( 5 ) ,

c u s t _ z i p c h a r ( 1 0 ) ,

c u s t _ c o u n t r y c h a r ( 5 0 ) ,

c u s t _ c o n t a c t c h a r ( 5 0 ) ,

c u s t _ e m a i l c h a r ( 2 5 5 )

) ;

Can someone tell me what's going wrong here, why am I getting this error
message?
Thanks,
Jerome