In a message dated 9/27/98 9:03:11 PM US Eastern Standard Time, mgp4007@omega.uta.edu writes: << why aren't you defining contiguous memory for the array? that way, each element is Array = TEXT_MEM+123 Array + RowNumber*4 + ColumnNumber considering that each element is 1 byte and there are 4 columns. (each row and column element is designated 0,1,2,and 3) >> Thanks for the tip. That's really helpful.