>George:
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>You are probably 100% correct, but it doesn't matter one iota. The solution that you gave me to save the long file name through WINMM.DLL worked splendidly. I can now save long file names with spaces. This is a much better solution then the one that I was striving for. Much much better. Thank you a whole bunch.
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>Could I impose on you a little more. I noticed that you wrote:
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>mciSendString(@SendString,"0",0,0)
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>and my code was:
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>mciSendString(&SendString,"0",0,0)
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>Could you explain why you used the @ symbol and what the difference is between the @ symbol usage and the & symbol usage?
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>Thanks, a very excited and happy camper.
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>DJ :o)

First, glad to hear that it works.

Now the @ symbol passes a variable by reference. Anytime you see a C declaration where one of the parameter names begins with "lp" it indicates that the value needs to be passed by reference. This also applies, however, to passing parameters to VFP UDFs (provided, of course, that SET UDFPARMS is equal to VALUE, which is the default).

The & symbol indicates macro substitution.