On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Sean McMahon wrote: > Maybe I no nothing here but for such a simple program why don't you use the > stdio.h with a printf statement. and why not just make main void? He could do the former, in order to test the compiler, but since it is C, and not C++, it would not be of much use, other than experience. As to the second point: that is invalid code. Yes, it works, but it shouldn't. Main is supposed to return an int. Luke