>Carl,
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>One flavor of the integer < - > string conversions Ed mentioned can be found in an article on my website. Under Q&A, General.

One followup here - the QUAD code I left converts between DWORDs and VFP; the code will work fine as long as the number being converted is a positive integer in the range 0 to (2^31 - 1); if you have negative numbers, they'll convert incorrectly to values 2^31 or greater. I can post code for NumToBINLong and BINLongToNum if there's any need (I don't know what the code on your Web page does; I'm sure everyone and his brother has code that does this correctly by now...)