From: deisenzi AT d DOT umn DOT edu Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: can't get STRING to work. Date: 25 Jan 2000 04:39:41 GMT Organization: University of Minnesota-Duluth Lines: 8 Message-ID: <86j9ed$n0s$1@news.d.umn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bulldog5.d.umn.edu To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Sorry if I'm not following you correctly. Some compilers (ex: Borland) have a strings header file with a type string. You'll have to declare strings as character arrays because this header isn't available. char str[25]; is an example... Darren