This is a DOS engine, I don't have the time to learn MFC or anything :/ since I Have to have this done in a few months and still have a lot to write

> > somebody told me it's bad to use borland coz the code will be incompatible because borland renames all the functions to something it just made up by itself.

> really? it does does it? never noticed anything unworkaroundable...

> windows programming isn't designed to be portable

> > besides that i have a bad experience with borland because it chews up code every so often and then you have to rewrite it or go to a backup copy.

> it has never chewed up my code. but keeping backups is good practice anyway, in case *you* chew up your code and need to revert