>>I'd say it's doc errata. In fact the version of Foxtools that ships with VFP 6.0 contains a function that's more than 10 characters long (_WSockGetHostByAddr() which is 19 characters).
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>Thanks, George; I forgot to check FOXTOOLS. I needed some reassurance before I forged ahead. I have 832 DLL functions to hook into; I nearly freaked when it looked like I might have to come up with a 10 char alias for each one of them.
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>Version 7.0 also seems to have no problem with 10+ char FLL names.

Gerry,

I'm seem (in the foggy reaches of my memory) to recall that at one time (under Win16, I think), this was a requirement. AFAIK, it hasn't been one since VFP 5.0 at the latest.