Tom,

Try just timing a few thousand calls to your NewID() function if they don't take but a couple of seconds to run it's not the source of your delay.

On my website is a sample spyin.zip that includes a VC++ project to create a DLL that processes the readable characters in a string. It's about 2-3 orders of magnitude faster than VFP could do it. Once you have the DECLARE DLL you call it like any other function. You'd need either the whole VisualStudio or just VC++ to make much sense of it. But you can write DLLs with other languages too. I was doing mostly C/C++ before I started using xbase.

The _EdCopy stuff isn't the same thing at all, that's more for building addin tools for the VFP development environment and it's a lot more complicated to use.

>David, thanks for the response. The newid() function is truly
>a stored procedure in the database container it is not a standalone
>PRG.
>
>I am curious as to how I could use a VC++ DLL since I do not
>know C++. I am curious about the API section of the help file that
>contains things such as _EdCopy and _EdPaste. I have no
>idea how to use the _APIs. This is probably somewhat off
>the original topic, but could you show me how these work or
>do I need to have C++?