SW>   I have an array of one of my structures that is too big
SW>   for my compiler... I have tried all the memory models for
SW>   Turbo C++ 3.0, but it still won't work.
   heh... No real surprise there. Try using dynamic allocation.
   You may experience difficulty if you attempt to run this in
   the IDE, however. At least I did in BC++3.1. But then, my
   system probably is not the most stable, even under the best
   of all possible conditions. :)
   You might also consider making maptile a class and putting
   all the code to handle the data in the class itself.
   That way, you are making maptile a data object, and your
   program simply manipulates the object.
#include 
#include 
/*   If someone would be kind enough to post a quick tutorial
     on using ostream with strings, I could get rid of sprintf()
     and not fall back on . :)
*/
typedef struct {
   char maptype, special[81], text[341];
   unsigned x, y;
   int attr, ansifg, ansibg, ansiattr;
}   maptile;
int main(void)
{
   int level, map;
   maptile ***local_map;
   local_map = new maptile**[9];
        /* create and allocate memory for a pointer to array
                of pointers to array of pointers to maptiles */
   for(level = 0; level < 9; level++)
   {
      local_map[level] = new maptile*[21];
             /* allocate memory for 9 maptile pointer arrays */
      for(map = 0; map < 21; map++)
      {
         local_map[level][map] = new maptile;
                   /* allocate memory for 21 maptile structs */
         sprintf(local_map[level][map]->text,
            "L%d|M%d ",
            level, map);
      }
   }
   for(level = 0; level < 9; level++)
   {
      for(map = 0; map < 21; map++)
      {
         cout text;
         delete local_map[level][map];
                          /* de-allocate the maptile structs */
      }
      cout << endl;
      delete []local_map[level];
                         /* de-allocate the maptile pointers */
   }
   delete []local_map;
                     /* de-allocate maptile pointer pointers */
   return 0;
}
> ] I'm not materialistic. I'm just Object Oriented.............
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