CompuServe Messages

I understood the word "compiled" to mean "made binary for execution". No confusion here. I'm a little startled to learn that compiling offers no advantage. Of course, I'm not doing MUCH "compiling" myself. Basically, just using an index file mechanism to link the tree together. Actually, embedded record pointers are probably faster and easier in this case than indexed files, but I want to let the driver grow beyond menus. If we are not talking Rainbow Specific, but "generic MS-DOS" we start to overlap all the Menu drivers that exist for the I*M + clone market, and this time I get to ask the obvious question: Why? My interest is Rainbow specific, and I realize full well that that's not mainstream.