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Happy to comment on what I've being doing John. This is my fourth attempt at learning C, SAS/C, and AmigaDOS. Things are falling into place easily and rapidly this time. I acredit two things to this; the experience that is learnt using the machine and reading about it, and second Arexx. I really believe the years programming this OS with Arexx has helped in learning C. I feel the two languages are very close. My first projects were the rewriting of Arexx utilities into cli based C programs. I have just released a PD utility for ProWrite that will remove PWs formating codes and yeild an ascii text file. Not much, but I'm proud of it. Right after placing it on a BBS. It was brought to my attention that I did not handle the short lines of a paragraph very well. I really didn't handle them at all. So, into rewrite I went. I also wanted to add tab selection to the next version. That is: allow the user to chose to leave the '09'hex in, or to remove it, or to change it to spaces (number selectable). I have finished with the first part. (changing tabs), but reformatting the line for the added spaces is yet to be done. I have placed this on the back fire to work on an Arexx program dealing with music. The first thing that I have worked on is sending and receiving messages in a C program that is maskgarading as a rexx program. One week of reading and two days at the keyboard and I can report success. Have found one thing that somebody may know differently about. You can not call the C program from a host, such as ProWrite. You must use an Arexx stub that will call the C code. Has anybody found this to be different? Thats all I have to say. I will be back asking questions though. -Tom