Subj : Re: Running 5.02 on XP To : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp From : "Craig Crennell" Date : Fri Jan 30 2004 07:07 pm Hi, I've ben having the same problem. 2 Questions; 1- what process did u go through to create the .exe in the first place & 2- can u describe agian please how to add the getchar(); to the program in the following simple example; ----------------- #include main() { cout << " Hello World!\n " ; } ---------------------------------- Thanks, Craig. "Matt" wrote in message news:3fe926e2$1@newsgroups.borland.com... > > I'm a newbie to this programming thing in general, so that's probably why I'm having a problem with such a simple thing. When I compile a program and run it, the program only runs for a split second. I know the program runs fine, I just need to know how to change some settings so the window doesn't close automatically when the program has finished. Help would be much appreciated. .