> Are you sure that difference is caused by VFP versions not Windows versions?

Sergey: it is on the same machine that I am trying to debug the issue.

I wonder if the _crypt from VFP7 is screwed up?

If VFP8 and VFP9 yield the same result I am wondering if something was messed up in the VFP7 library to start this whole issue.

--rab