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Eric, The problem with sending responses via EasyPlex (or, rather, CompuServe Mail) is that others don't get to benefit from the results. Still, I'll Email you a copy of this. I cannot speak about MicroCrud C vs. Turbo C. Besides the fact that I'm severely biased against "Billy" Gates and crew, I've never used either of them (I'm a Mac guy). As for the various C's, I've never heard of C+ — I suspect it's an old precursor to C++. There IS C+-, a.k.a. Object C; the only Object C compiler I know of, though, is THINK C 4.0 for the Mac. Anyhow, C++ and Object C (which is a subset of C++, by the way) are both object-oriented extensions to C. For now stick with C. Aside from DDJ itself, Rex Jaesche (sp?) has written a series of columns in DEC Professional, which have been compiled into one or two books, entitled "Let's C Now." It's a good C tutorial. I'd also recommend "Programming in C" and/or "Programming in ANSI C" by Stephen Kochan, published by Howard W. Sams. They're both good tutorials AND reference books. (If you don't have to worry about pre-ANSI C, stick with the latter — the ANSI C book is basically the same book as the other one, modified for ANSI C rather than the older K&R standard). Joe