You might also want to have a look at Zed A Shaw's Learn C The Hard Way - http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ The book is still in alpha but will introduce some cool tools and techniques to smartly deal with C on the *Nix platform. -- Abu Ashraf Masnun | +8801711960803 | http://masnun.com <http://masnun.com>