PH> It looks to me what you're trying to do is read a command line
 PH> argument, compare it to the string "/a", and act acording to the
 PH> result of that comparison; right? Well, here's how (and bear in mind
 PH> that I come from C, and know little of C++):
The code's already been rewritten, but thanks for the comments.
L8r,
bw
... As I said before, never repeat yourself.
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