made changes to program to work better it does. still one issue, it will not open a file and write to it. moles.c opens and writes just fine when ran on its own but when ran from spiritd.c it just doesnt want to play ball. ive tried every combination of exec but there is no way to test it using the debugger, at least i dont know of one..... it could also just be that my version of ubuntu is annoying. will teset it out on a different system on tuesday during lab. othere than that this should count as my final submission, still 1 bug but i have ran out of ideas or ways to try and fix it...