>What is the VFP equivalent of the this VB code:

>dVar = -1#  ' signifies that the value is a double data type

I'm not sure if there's an exact equivalent, but you can force it to be double by creating a cursor with a double field and assigning the memvar to it.

create cursor tmpDbl (bFld B)
insert into tmpDbl values (-1)
dVar = tmpDbl.bFld