> Thank you 
 > Gettring rid of msvc seems to be the general consensus.  I 
 > appreciate your help

Sure. I would really consider getting rid of that, and getting
possibly the Watcom or Borland compilers. As with everything else made
by MS(except for Word), VC++ is the least functional piece of junk that
can be had. I've been using it at work on a windoze project (God help
me), basically using Borland C++ to do the development, and compiling
the "final" executables with VC++, only because our client wants us to
use VC++. Borland's compiler will build the whole project in less than
5 minutes, VC++ takes a whopping 20+ to build the same thing! That's
with no optimizations. I was amazed at that the first time i did a full
build with VC++. I'm also amazed at how brain-dead the compiler is. The
simplest things, such as:

MyStruct array[20];

MyStruct *p = &array[2];

won't compile! You have to do:

MyStruct array[20];

MyStruct m = array[2];

MyStruct *p = &m;

As far as its C++ implementation, it's a joke. I wouldn't be surprised
to see something like

#ifdef __cplusplus
#define new(x) malloc sizeof(x)
#endif

in the header files somewhere. 

Sorry to go off like that.

Kelly

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