>Hello George,
>thought you might be interested, this is what I ended up with ;
>
>

>LPARAMETERS pcUser, pcMessage
>DECLARE INTEGER NetMessageBufferSend IN netapi32 ;
>  STRING servername, STRING UserName, STRING fromname, ;
>  STRING MessageBuf, INTEGER buflen
>lcUser    = strconv( StrConv(pcUser,1), 5) + Chr(0)
>lcMsg     = strconv( StrConv(pcMessage,1), 5) + Chr(0)
>lcFrom    = strconv( Strconv(Sys(0),1), 5) + Chr(0)
>lnLen     = len(lcMsg)
>res = NetMessageBufferSend( 0, lcUser, lcFrom, lcMsg, lnLen )
>RETURN res
>

>
>thanks for your help
>
>Pete Kane

You're welcome.