>Thanks Brian!
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>I'll give that a try.
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>I've been exploring using the BINTOC() function to create my binary integers.
>I was going to use BINTOC(4,1) for example to create an 8 bit integer with a value of 4 and BINTOC(42) to create a 32 bit integer with a value of 42. Would this work or are the binary values created using BINTOC particular to Fox?
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>Best regards,
>Mike

I don't know much about that function, but if it creates 8 bit bytes from passed data then I am sure it works. I always used the CHR() function to create 8-bit character values for use in strings.