Hi Martin,
Isn't there a typo. AFAIK integers are stored as loworder, highorder bytes, meaning 16^0*1st+16^2*2nd... However there are cases this format is not obeyed like in fox headers.

**************************************************************************
* getbyte : get a single byte at position specified by pos from a file opened
*           with low level functions (handle comes from that function)
* getword :
* get a word size integer in hex format
* parameters : handle - file handle got by fopen() or alike
*              pos    - file position to get word
*              lr     - (Logical) if .T. left-to-right format used
*                       if .F. or not passed right-to-left format used
*                       (more likely to be used with low level)
* EXAMPLE :
* getword(handle,12)     - returns 62313 if bytes at offset 11 are ( 69 F3 )
* getword(handle,12,.T.) - returns 62313 if bytes at offset 11 are ( F3 69 )
*
* getlong : same as getword except gets 4 bytes
**************************************************************************
function getbyte
parameters handle,pos
=fseek(handle,POS,0)
return asc(fread(handle,1))

function getword
parameters handle,pos,lr
if parameters()<3
 lr=.f.
endif
=fseek(handle,POS,0)
return asc(fread(handle,1))*iif(lr,256,1)+asc(fread(handle,1))*iif(lr,1,256)

function getlong
parameters handle,pos,lr
if parameters()<3
 lr=.f.
endif
lowword=getword(handle,iif(lr,pos+2,pos),lr)
highword=getword(handle,iif(lr,pos,pos+2),lr)
return highword*65536+lowword

Cetin

>Hi, Ronald.
>
>Integers are easy. Just take the two bytes, multiply the first by 256 and add the second. Same thing for longs. Floating point values are stores as base and mantissa. Just let me remember how it was. If I found a Basic at home tonight maybe I can do it.
>
>Til tomorrow!
>
>
>>I have a project that I am working on converting a QBasic or Quick Basic program to VFP. The data files that are used are saved as random data files, so the numeric data is unreadable to VFP. I have found out that the numeric data is saved in this format:
>>
>> I = integers - stored as 2 bytes
>> S = Single Precision - stored as 4 bytes
>> D = Double Presision - stored as 8 bytes
>> L = Long Integers - stored as 4 bytes