diff --git a/src/sbbs3/getnode.cpp b/src/sbbs3/getnode.cpp
index e10e0c4f4dcb2e15f59766114ad130ee22b8deba..dce71520847ed293030e3b05802f85b666e76f8f 100644
--- a/src/sbbs3/getnode.cpp
+++ b/src/sbbs3/getnode.cpp
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ static char* node_connection_desc(sbbs_t* sbbs, ushort conn, char* str)
 {
 	switch(conn) {
 		case NODE_CONNECTION_LOCAL:
-			return " Locally";	/* obsolete */
+			return (char*)" Locally";	/* obsolete */
 		case NODE_CONNECTION_TELNET:
 			return sbbs->text[NodeConnectionTelnet];
 		case NODE_CONNECTION_RLOGIN:
diff --git a/src/sbbs3/ver.cpp b/src/sbbs3/ver.cpp
index 7c58dd28c24d32a0b1c009fa077775667f6f5da5..d581444b4aba0c4ca35045f4bf43d1bfdf3cc8a4 100644
--- a/src/sbbs3/ver.cpp
+++ b/src/sbbs3/ver.cpp
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  * @format.tab-size 4		(Plain Text/Source Code File Header)			*
  * @format.use-tabs true	(see http://www.synchro.net/ptsc_hdr.html)		*
  *																			*
- * Copyright 2005 Rob Swindell - http://www.synchro.net/copyright.html		*
+ * Copyright 2010 Rob Swindell - http://www.synchro.net/copyright.html		*
  *																			*
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or			*
  * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License				*
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 
 #include "sbbs.h"
 
-extern "C" const char* beta_version = " "; /* Space if non-beta, " beta" otherwise */
+const char* beta_version = " "; /* Space if non-beta, " beta" otherwise */
 
 #if defined(_WINSOCKAPI_)
 	extern WSADATA WSAData;