>Ok, don't laugh. I have a Fox application that uses sys(2015) to create unique keys.

Don't worry, so do lots of others, some very reputable FoxPro experts included.

>I would like to create a small utility application in VB that acts upon this Fox data, but I need to know if there is a way to simulate the sys(2015) function. Any ideas?

If you don't need FoxPro's specific algorithm, any "hashing" function will do. Do you have a computer science background? You probably have some hashing functions in some old textbooks.

HTH,