[Mike Betts]

Eric,

I did compile and run Matt's code under Turbo C and Quick C with no problems. His program is the simplest code which is guaranteed to run under ANSI compliant C.

see http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/simple-c

Now to correct an error I made...

Your example is valid under DOS, etc... In your code argc is a integer which is the number of command line parameters and argv is a pointer to an array of pointers to arrays of characters. These strings are the command line parameters entered by you when you run the executable.

see: http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/multiple-level

Without adding this, Matt is unable to access command line parameters which is OK because we will not be running under DOS anyway...

As I said... Your code also works... I did not mean to start a fight here.

Peace.