Thanks all for your replies. I now have a better idea of the things. And Glynn's note about comp.lang.c++ is noted. -- Shriramana Sharma -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html