Subj : Re: CPPSAVEX_MAGIC assertion To : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp From : Ed Mulroy [TeamB] Date : Fri Sep 10 2004 12:41 am Since you have not posted to the BCB ide group, I'll put this here. What you show is not capable of being checked out Not given enough source is given to create an executable No linker command is given The source does this which is invalid: #include There is no standard header named systdate. There is a VCL header named systdate.h which would be included as #include and not #include were it to be a stand alone header, which it is not. That is why you got the error which said to not include the file directly, but rather to include system.hpp .. Ed > Shawn Butler wrote in message > news:4140b844@newsgroups.borland.com... .