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I open tapes2.dat with notepad it looks ok except cin.ignore(1); will delete the very first charactor entry when you dont need too.

> everytime i attempt to run it, it starts a small dos window, loads it with lots of text and shuts down a split second after i run it,


try pausing the program before leaving such as:
getch();

Add blanks lines
ListBox1->Items->Insert(0, "");
until its centered
then when you need to delete them
ListBox1->Items->Delete(0);

good place to learn builder 6
http://www.functionx.com/bcb/

Dont delete the original text in the console wizard but instead just add the extra text.
Cout doesnt work in windows, just DOS.
However you didnt get the program to program DOS, you got it to...

Rather than loop through and read each line one at a time, the program reads the first line of the text file and ends. Any help with understanding this would be appreciated.

for(int i=0;i<5;i++);...