Thanks Mike.
I downloaded arduino-0012, is that considered an arduino environment?
I have, on my computer, BASCOM-AVR, which I use to work with an ATMEGA32. When I tried to open a program in arduino-0012 (blink), windows gave me a choice of ways to open it. one of them was BASCOM-AVR, so I tried that and it opened the program and it appears to be ready to operate. Is that the proper way of doing things?
Patrick