Thanks Mark,

Been there done that! It started that way, and I spaced it according to the VFP documentation. Neither way works.. I appreciate you looking at it though... sorta like Extreme debugging.

Glenn

>Remove the space between @ and cRecord.
>
>>I have been trying to implement a set of API function calls. All the other calls work just fine but this one fires VFP error #1230 (Too many arguments).
>>

>>declare integer ls_getRecord in (lcDll) ;
>>	long lsHndle,long nRecno,int nFmtCode,string @ cRecord,int nRecordLength
>>
>>NlEN = ls_getRecord(lnStru,i,6,@cRecord,nBufflen)
>>

>>
>>the same call in C## is

>>DLLIMP int  CALLX ls_getRecord(char *h,
>>		long recNum /* 1 origin physical rec# */,
>>		int fmtCode, char *recbuf, int recbuflen);
>>
>>nRv = ls_getRecord(h,rn,rqCode,sFmtBuf,sFmtBufLen);
>>

>>
>>Does anyone have any suggestions, recommendations, straight jackets?
>>
>>Glenn