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Mike, You had: <whatever-type> *array[n][m]; which is array [m] of array [n] of pointer to <whatever-type>. I know how easy it is to make this kind of mistake, but … I bought my compiler early on packaged by Commodore as the Commodore Lattice compiler. However, within the first month I sent in the bug report to Lattice (as the supplied documentation told me to) and was informed at that time that I'd have to pay about $100.00 for an upgrade. I was (and still am) totally disgusted with Lattice and for that reason will not upgrade. You could only compile about 25% of the PD software available — it had so many bugs. I felt that I was screwed by Lattice for a piece of junk! And for that reason I have always recommended against the product; if that's how well the company stands behind a product, it won't get any good marks in my book. Why, I reported about 7 bugs, one of which was that it wouldn't generate code that would work when indexing arrays of structures. The other compiler didn't have nearly as many bugs and they weren't as serious. Now … for the $100.00 that Lattice wanted, I wonder how many $ is referral sales they lost just from the recommendations I gave others. Jerry.