>Hi all,
>
>I am trying to access a 3rd party DLL; here is the declaration for VB:
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>

Declare Function bConnect Lib "dClient.dll" (hostID$, portnum%, tcphandle&, maxtime&) As Long

>I am able to access the DLL from VB using this declaration. I need to use the DLL from Fox. Here is what I am trying in VFP6 SP3:
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>declare long bConnect in dClient string hostID, short portNum, long @tcpHandle, long maxTime

This makes no sense;  why would you declare one of the arguments of type & as "long @" and the other "long"?  The odds are that one of the two long declares is completely FUBAR, and either both should be declared LONG, or LONG @ (LONG is ByVal, LONG @ is ByRef)

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