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>>Oh, OK. It was part of the download (from MSDN) version. If you go to the Task(er) (that's a joke, BTW) Pane, it's in the "New in Visual FoxPro 8.0" under the "Solution Samples". It's the next to the last sample.
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>>It'll launch a browser window with instructions. I've followed the instructions exactly, but no joy on the VB side (no need to convert to C#, BTW). If you do get a chance to try it, please let me know the results.
>
>You made me curious :) While got you online another dummy/silly question from me :)
>I have a struct like this :
>

>struct mystruc
>{
>  short s1;
>  char s2;
>  int s3;
>  unsigned char u1;
>  unsigned short u2;
>} myrecord;
>
>* A data file as seen in hexeditor
>00 80 80 FF FF FF FF 80 00 80
>

>Want to read this at once into struc if possible at all. Something like :
>

>
> mystruc arecord;
> //...
> fread( &arecord, sizeof( mystruc ), 1, fin );
>

>Not even sure I could make it understandable :)

Cetin,

No I don't completely understand. The question, however, that I'd ask is why is the char being declared as unsigned? AFAIK, char is neither signed or unsigned.