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>Is there a reason that VFP's BINTOC() won't work for you?

Unfortunately, the BINTOC() and CTOBIN() functions dont produce the proper chars. BINTOC() almost works except for two problems, the MSB order is reversed and the high byte is nonstandard. The first issue is trivial and easily dealt with, but the second is not. I looked at how VFP stores it's integers in a dbf and they don't match BINTOC(). Bummer. Perhaps the high order byte rule can be determined with some experimentation and the VFP functions used. I'll find out.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Gary Foster