Thanks Richard, and all the others who spent their time educating me on this matter. As a hermit, who lives in the swamp, and has only himself for tech support, I find the synergy of this group to be purely wonderful! I grew up in Borlands Turbo C and learned C++ as they upgraded their product. I suspect that some of my misunderstandings come from this experience. (Borland often implements features at variance with the standard, for protection purposes) Pointers have always been my weak point, I suspect from the various meta levels of access and the sometimes confusing syntax. My understanding has been improved by the help you all provided.
Of all the solutions provided I found: jtime = time(&jtime); to be the most elegant (and memory efficient) Thanks again for allowing me to subvert your bandwidth :-) Dale ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + + + Can someone help deal with all these unreported errors? + + + + Avco 1984 + + + ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
