ye ai've tried dev cpp I've tried the whole teurbo and the borland series
and a couple of other obscure ones i found when i googled for them
havent been able to download GCC cause of the college athourities having done somefreaky thing in the proxy settings and sh!t any way know of any others
and the error i get is somthing like this program is not suitable to be run under windows or dos environment

and no I didnt dld the *nix evrsion they were proper exe files for the setup
any way help plz ..?