problem with pg_restore?

I am having problems with pg_restore.  pg_restore --file=c:\pg-jmichae3-7-13-2009.sql --verbose --host=localhost --port=5432 --username=postgres

this just hangs.
I am restoring from 8.3.7 to 8.4 - what did I do wrong?

could somebody rewrite pg_dumpall and pg_dump so that it makes editable dumps?
most programmer's text editors can't handle more than 2000 characters per line.
and I want to be able to edit my dumps.