>>Peter,
>>
>>Thanks a lot. Here is what I found in the header file.
>>
>>typedef struct tagDPIDate
>>{
>> short jour;
>> short mois;
>> short annee;
>>} DPIDate, FAR * LPDPIDate;
>
>Each short is a 2-byte integer. So, you need to pass a string of 6 bytes. For the conversions from VFP numerical type to short 2-byte string:
>
>lcJour = chr(lnJour % 256) + chr(int(lnJour / 256))
>lcMois = chr(lnMois % 256) + chr(int(lnMois / 256))
>lcAnnee = chr(lnAnnee % 256) + chr(int(lnAnnee / 256))
>
>And pass the lcJour+lcMois+lcAnnee to the DLL function.
>
>Probably you already knew how to do this, but...
>
>Vlad

Of course, the purpose is to return stuff from the DLL function (unpack) as opposed to send stuff to it (pack). But this would let you send stuff to the Dll function if it required it...