Hi andrew,

 ac> MS-DOS(0) [d:\bc\xlib]bcc -c fossil.c
 ac> Borland C++  Version 3.1 Copyright (c) 1992 Borland
 ac> International fossil.c:
 ac> Turbo Assembler  Version 3.2  Copyright (c) 1988, 1992
 ac> Borland International 

 ac> Assembling file:   fossil.ASM
 ac> Error messages:    None
 ac> Warning messages:  None
 ac> Passes:            1
 ac> Remaining memory:  398k



 ac>         Available memory 4152384


 ac> No problem there.  What error message does it produce?

It works now, the problem was that I was trying to compile fossil.c under
the IDE, can't remember the error message that it gave but I used bcc -c
fossil.c and it worked perfectly. all I did was include the .obj in my
project and i've written my first door!

Regards,
Grant

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