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I think it's a speed thing. It turns up in faster machines too but not as frequently. The compiler was probably designed for a 486 or even 386, windows yes but not NT. On a 486 under DOS it's fine. It isn't my code that's doing it: it's the compiler or its libraries but is shouldn't be executing anything except itself at that point. The weirdness is that lack of consistency. It might go through, it might fail the moment it starts or anywhere between. A soft bug I'd expect to blow up after a specific time and probably as it's working on a particular source library - which it lists to screen as its going. My main concern was to check whether it would work (including run the result since it's an intermediate translating system) with NT. If it won't, it won't. I don't want my home stuff under NT anyway! Truth is, I don't like mysteries and 'General Error' is as bad as 'DOS Error 21' for informativeness.