It's astatic library which ships with Visual C++. You can find it in VC98\Lib
The issue wrt. open and other variable argument functions may be our cue that we should really have our own oldnames.a library...
Sounds good and if it will save me from having to write more boring configure checks then I am all for it. =) Once again I think its one of those things that sounds god but I dont know how much I can help on it other then testing.
Thanks Steven
__________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com