Philip,

> In my experience, when a VFP COM object loads from the DLL, the currect, default directory is the WINDOWS\SYSTEM or WINNT\SYSTEM32 folder where the VFP runtimes are located, not the folder where the DLL was registered.

Ok, I'll have it located on Windows\system directory. I think this would work already. I've noticed also that most of the DLL's are located on this directory.

I'm not using any tables , what the COM does it performs binary to ascii conversion of packed digits/ or bytes. It contains low level functions such fread,fwrite,fopen,fseek and some bit operations, in short, it is a bit driven app.

Thank you very big Philip.