>Alex,
>
>You could use sys( 2017 ) to calculate a 16 bit checksum. I believe this will work in FPW 2.6 on up. To make your checksum more unique, you could add the number of chars in your password to the checksum and/or number of vowels, etc.

I was using sys(2017) of the string, plus sys(2017) of some predefined string of mine prepended to that string... something like this:

function ckVal(c)
ckVal=sys(2017,c)+"-"+sys(2017, "mystring"+c)
return ckval