Eljay Love-Jensen wrote: >Hi Louise, > >My suggestion is to go to Cygwin (www.cygwin.com), download setup.exe (I > > I *really* wouldn't recommend that approach to a beginner at all. cygwin has been known to cause premature baldness in seasoned developers. try this instead http://www.bloodshed.net/ See also http://www.mingw.org/ Dave