>If you mean converting a numeric to a character representation then yes it has to be passed. If you mean actual character data, then most likely you only have to append a CHR(0) to the end to make it NULL terminated (unless there is a numeric somewhere that tells the passee how much data was passed).
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>If you take a look at some of the functions in the WinAPI section, you can see various types of numeric dta being converted and passed.
Thank you for your clarifications.
Hilmar.
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