>>> free copy of CrossOver The last time I tried a free crossover (~2008, version 7.1). I think I conc= luded that it did some nice things, but not really the things I wanted to d= o with it that would have been relevant to microcontroller development. I = wanted to have simple windows commands INTEGRATE with my mac environment, s= o I could do things like: wine /Users/billw/Applications/WineApps/cc5x/cc5x.exe -IC:cc5x -p16c57 = main.c while crossover seemed to make efforts to keep the windows apps "bottled up= " in their own mini-environments=85 BillW --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .