Okay let's get out of this, exerpt from the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 N843 Committee Draft of August 3, 1998 [#1] The following are unspecified: -- The termination status returned to the hosted environment if the return type of main is not | compatible with int (5.1.2.2.3). Hope this helps. Henk Poley <><