>Hi George,
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>>One more thought. Are you sure that a string is always passed by reference?
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>Yep, absolutely. If you use STRING, instead of STRING@, VFP copies the string into a temporary buffer and passes the address of this buffer to the API function. With STRING@ it passes a pointer to the actual string (which is locked for the duration of the API call).
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Thanks Christof. I thought that's what was happening, but wasn't sure.