From: keane AT earthsun DOT umd DOT edu (Christopher Matthews Keane) Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:12:32 -0500 To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Subject: RE: scanf problems The problem in you code is that scanf expects the address of a variable. Try: scanf("%f", &amount); Should work - did for me! I just have problems with gets() working correctly! :-) Cheers Christopher Keane keane AT earthsun DOT umd DOT edu