Subj : Re: Help for a new user To : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp From : "Ed Mulroy [TeamB]" Date : Fri Nov 14 2003 02:48 pm If the program is a console mode program, a text mode program which starts at the function main, then the program says to open a console window when it runs and Windows will close that window when it has finished running. If you either place a breakpoint on the return statement in main or put getchar(); on the last line prior to that return statement then the program will stop at that point and the the console window will be open because the program has not yet finished running. .. Ed > Kevon Houghton wrote in message > news:3fb52508$1@newsgroups.borland.com... > > Hello, I am a CS student. I am currently taking a C++ class > in which one of the labs is to compile code using two different > compilers. Untill this point, I have always used MS Visual > Studio.net. I downloaded the trial of Borland C++ Builder. It > looks pretty good, however I don't know where to go from here. > I can import the code, and I've tried the run command. It > appears to have compiled... it makes a .exe file, but when > I run the .exe file, nothing happens. It's like it compiled to > nothing. Any suggestions on where to read on how to get > it to work, or any suggestions on what to do would be greatly > appreciated. .