Plamen, that worked great...first try. Thank you.
If I may, one more question.
I am going to call a VB6 program from a Visual FoxPro program. The vb program is going to read the contents of a bar code scanner.
Q: How do I pass a name for my data file from VFP into the VB program? The file name need not pass back to Fox because Fox already knows what it is.

Thanks, Randy