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From: ray roth <rayroth@pacbell.net>
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if you have visual studio, you can run it in command-line mode.
it has /E switch which is equivalent to -E on most cc drivers.
ie,  copies preprocessor output to standard output

here is is the url documenting visual studio compiler options:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fwkeyyhe%28v=vs.80%29.aspx
and this is how to compiler programs from the command line:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235639%28v=vs.80%29.aspx

there is always cygwin....

if you go this route, just use cpp directly.

ray roth