>> Are you sure that difference is caused by VFP versions not Windows versions?
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>Sergey: it is on the same machine that I am trying to debug the issue.
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>I wonder if the _crypt from VFP7 is screwed up?
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>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.
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Did you try to use VFP8 library in VFP7?