Try cut and pasting llyod''s code to start with. Take what he wrote and try it in a brand new project.

The macro thing you have looks complicated, though i don''t see any obvious errors in it. You are only using one of those two at a time, right? I usually go with FILE and don''t mess with any wrapping of it.


As for your program''s splash screen:
Project->Settings:
c/c++:
category(dropdown)->customize:
suppress startup banner.
I actually don''t know if this is the right thing. It''s an option that is always clicked off for me, and turning it back on didn''t change my program or MSVC. It could just be part of the student version you have.

can you access a file you know you have like so:?
//------------------
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
FILE *file;
file = fopen( "c:\\autoexec.bat","rt" );
if( file ) printf("It worked\n");
else printf("It didn''t work.\n");
}
//------------------