Actually, I did contemplate installing Cygwin, but ,,,selden wrote:for what it's worth, once you have installed Cygwin and the development tools that come with it, it takes only seconds to build "planet".
I've done LCCwin32, DevC++, DJthingyPP(never can remember its letters! and what a pain that one was!!) TurboC, smallC, etc&etc and I dont think there is any room left in my braincell for yetanother (well not without a braindefrag!), so I thought I'd take the easy route and just run John's wee proggy, argghhh !
Malcolm.