"Is there anyway I can open this file lastfile.ms3 with my hex program and extract the (fe 4e) portion of this line into a texbox. From here I could then convert it to decimal?"

You could use following:

lnHandle=FOPEN("lastfile.ms3")
lcLine=" "
IF lnHandle>0
lcLine=FGETS(lnHandle)
=FCLOSE(lnHandle)
ENDIF

lcLine would then contain first line within file. You can also use FSEEK(), FEOF(), FPUTS(), FREAD() and FWRITE() if you need to manipulate further.


Gary.