>> TH: char K[256][100];
 ML>       Which works fine in WATCOM C++  in MAIN...
Uh, why are you going on and on with watcom? Gcc is _THE_ C/C++ compiler.
 ML>       until...
 ML>       You try to do the loop in a FUNCTION...
What? Like this?
void Foo(char **bar)
{
    int c;
    for (c = 0; c < 2; c ++)
        cin >> bar[c];
}
Is something wrong with that? (when bar is allocated properly ofcourse)
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