rf says --- >Or howbout ASCII that once copied onto another machine somehow >gets compiled and THEN run? That could work, I would think... ---- Fortunately the ANSI standards are still different enough in implementation that this would be hard to do. It usually takes some global setting of an environment variable to determine which variant of the standard you want - DOS/WIN/Solaris/HPUX/ ad nauseum.... Also, all compilers don't start the same way (unlike the UNIX cc), or use the same command line options. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet: mshines@ia.purdue.edu | Michael S. Hines Bitnet: michaelh@purccvm | Sr. Information Systems Auditor Purdue WIZARD Mail: MSHINES | Purdue University GTE Net Voice: (317) 494-5845 | 1065 Freehafer Hall GTE Net FAX: (317) 496-1814 | West Lafayette, IN 47907-1065 CompuServe: 73240,1631 |