marian wrote: > however there is > a comment INSIDE the conditional statement; is that legal c?
Yep, 'fraid so, it's just a red herring. Comments can go pretty much anywhere except in the middle of a single word or number or string. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple