Take a look to SET NOCPTRANS in the help.

Vlad

>I am trying to use the cipher .fll to encrypt passwords that will be stored in a SQL server table and then compared when a user tries to log into an application.
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>The encryption works great but it seems that when I save the password via a remote view it changes certain characters; therefore on many occaissions the passwords will never match again.
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>I am guessing that this is a setting somewhere in VFP. As far as I know the character field should just accept the data being saved as a literal string. Any ideas?
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>TIA,
>George