I know we get a lot of questions about C and C++ pointers. This article should be stolen by Inthane and his grab bag along with others who are having problems with pointers. It's the first simple to follow article I have seen outside of a book and even though this is not what I was looking for I thought it would be of interest to some new c and c++ users. http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/pointers.asp Ken