Visual Slick does have nice code beautifying options. And I think they have a Linux version. It is not for free, however... TomT Hi wrt code formatting and comments and linting: I have a program called indent (GNU indent 1.9.1 on Linux) that formats C source nicely, but it has a few nasty bugs. One of them makes it recurse forever and delete the source file (!!). Is there something better along the same lines ? (for Linux preferrably). Peter