sorry, i didnt see this second part of the question > > I was looking through the support archive and found this > message(below) > which is relevant to my question. I had the same problem the nmake /f > msoft.mak test. I do not have the cmp program which does the > comparison. > Could you tell me where I might get a copy? cmp is a Unix utility; I dont know of any equivalent that comes with NT. MKS sells a package that duplicates cmp and other unix utilities (like vi!). We use it for our testing (~$400). There might be some freeware out there also. > Otherwise it looks like I had success installing with MS V > C++ 6.0 under > Windows 98. thats good news. did you have to modify msoft.mak ?