>I'm looking at some code and they are saving values in either 8bit or 16bit or 32bit words. How can I do that in FoxPro. Sorry if this is detailed enough but I don't understand what these "words" are. It looks like they take an ASCII value and transform it into an different word.

In VFP a SHORT is a 16 bit integer (a WORD), an INTEGER is 32 bits (a DWORD). 8 bits is a BYTE but VFP has no corresponding data type. Perhaps if you posted the code, we could be of more help. Since VFP is so loosely typed, it may not be necessary to make any modification.