Sef, he's converting a Turbo C program from the early 90's. I had that compiler and templates were not supported well. I know it did not support the STL (I don't even know if the STL was widespread or even created at that point). I do agree he needs to learn how to deal with pointers correctly and that the STL would be better for all new programs. Upgrading an old program might be even more of a mess than just correcting the use of pointers though.

James, if you attach your code to your next message and tell us what line # (and file if there are more than one file) that causes you problems, we might be able to help more. Outside of that, I do recommend getting some books and/or finding some tutorials.

Good luck!

- Kevin