P.S
I will help my collegue with the information provided, thanks for your advice, but as my knowledge of programming is quite weak, i am unable to write the rest of the program as i do not understand the c++ language thoughraly, i think i might just give up, Thank you all for your advice and help, it is much appreciated and has helped quite alot... look forward to keeping updated with this website as i know i can learn alot from here...

Thanks again...
Nicolas