In article <13981 at lanl.gov> jlg at lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes: >C foolishly doesn't require 'short', 'int', and 'long' to be >different data types. These certainly are distinct data types in C. If you don't like C, that's your business, but please quit grumbling to the C newsgroup, especially when you don't know what you're talking about. Thanks..