Yeah - I missed that part (was concentrating on other) - I'll try the crypto thing.
Thanks!

>Hi!
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>See end of FAQ#7995. I thought you read it, so did not proposed that solution :-)
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>>Thanks for replies - separate question - do you know of a way (API perhaps?) to get a string to hex conversion happening? I've tried VFP code based methods but they are incredibly slow on large files.
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>>I know I can do a simple concatenation insert if I can efficiently convert to hex.
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>>Thanks,
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