Hey, Kurt!

 >    You'll forgive me if I did not quote the angry
 > bits, I hope.

    Naturally. :-) I wasn't angry really ... just a bit miffed. :-) I try
really hard not to be supercilious, and it's disappointing that others don't.

 >    You WOULD, however, require that the array be
 > passed or
 >    another variable, a global, be assigned the value
 > of **argv
 >    in order to access the data from a function other
 > than main()
 >    no matter what notation were employed, since that
 > is not an
 >    an issue of syntax, but of scope.

    That all makes sense to me, Kurt. I can only wonder why it does not make
sense to everybody. :-) I don't even see the problem with pointer arithmetic,
but maybe I'm just used to it.

Best wishes,
Bill.

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