>Gang,
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>Ok... I got it (I think)! I found a post about sending PDF files to a web service and they mentioned the CREATEBINARY( ) VFP function. I tried it and it worked like a champ. Now, how do I convert from that back into a string?

If the data is coming back through COM you should automatically get a binary string - VFP treats binary data as string always so you should be fine with the data as is.

If the data for some reason is indeed base64 binary it'll be just base 64 which you can convert with STRCONV.