>Well that's kind of what I would have thought too, except that the example in VFP8 showed a structure that consisted of 8 WORD values and the string required was 40 bytes long. That would be 5 bytes per WORD. That confused me a bit.
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John,

I haven't seen the example so I can't comment on that.

In VFP you would call everything, but the pointer to the version info a SHORT (2 bytes). So the string should be:

lcwsdata = SPACE(2 + 2 + 256 + 128 + 2 + 2 + 4)

or SPACE(396).