>Hi Scott!
>
>You're welcome with your questions here ;))
>You haven't define properly the prototype, so I answer for you:
>
>declare InitiateSystemShutdown in Win32Api;
> string @,;
> string @,;
> string,;
> integer
>
>and the second note: you SHOULD pass the first and the second param by
>reference.
>As the third param you can pass replicate(chr(0),4)

Usually, declaring a DWORD param as a string is not the best idea. It just gives you an useless overhead.

For input parameters (as in this case), DWORD can always be declared as LONG or INTEGER (these 2 types are equivalent in VFP).

Vlad