Hi Paul! Yeah, you're right, I've read this yesterday in Arnon article in VFUG Newsletter...BTW, four byte is an equivalent of 32 bit, isn't it? May be I'm wrong? Have a happy day Vladimir Shevchenko > DOUBLE is a 4-byte (64-bit) floating point type both in C/C++ and VFP. > DWORD is a 4-byte unsigned integer. The internal format is different. > > >Did you tried declare your function as String instead of Double (Can I