It won't work. You cannt have a var inside of a pass-through query.

>>That what openquery is for. You can send pass-through query to the specified linked server. Fox is in my case.
>>Problem is to build a complete string with parameters. Too many quotes.
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>If the linked server is Fox and you want to use strings do this:
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>select * from openquery(VAMCPD,'select a.cItemno,a.nShipQty,a.nSalesAmt-a.nDiscAmt as Amt
>                                       from aritrs a
>                                inner join arinvc b on a.cInvNo=b.cInvNo
>                                where a.cCustno+a.cInvNo like "'+@StringPar+'%" and cType= ""')
>

>this is not tested.
>As you see you can use double quotes ub the query string if the linked server accepts them.
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>You even can use square brackets:
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>select * from openquery(VAMCPD,'select a.cItemno,a.nShipQty,a.nSalesAmt-a.nDiscAmt as Amt
>                                       from aritrs a
>                                inner join arinvc b on a.cInvNo=b.cInvNo
>                                where a.cCustno+a.cInvNo like ['+@StringPar+'%] and cType= []')
>