Sergey,
thanks for the help but I can't get the Intiger function to run. I took out the double AS AS but I still get the error "Declare DLL caused an exception"
I tried moving the DECLARE to the top of the program so it would only be called once but still go the same thing. I also took the AS RtlCopyNum out completly and changed the name in the funciton but I still get the same thing.

I haven't tried the 64 bit floating point but what would I do to convert it to 32 bit? Or should I ask Dragan?
John.



>Hi John,
>
>

* Convert Long integer into VFP numeric variable
>	FUNCTION Long2Num(tcLong)
>	DECLARE RtlMoveMemory IN WIN32API AS  AS RtlCopyNum ;
>		Long @Dest, String @Source, Long Length
>	LOCAL lnNum
>	lnNum = 0
>	= RtlCopyNum(@lnNum, tcLong, 4)
>	RETURN lnNum
>	ENDFUNC
>

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>>I am converting some data from an old system. I can write the records out to a text file but numeric fields are still in the raw format. I have confirmed that they are 32-bit IEEE floating-point and 32 bit Intiger. Does anyone know where I can find code to convert these? I need to read the 4 bytes and return the decimal value.
>>TIA