Hi Al,

In my database there is on every record another the start and length pointer into the reference file, they are infact parameters into a large memofile.
What I want to do is to get somehow in VB this complete string of 7 bytes, including the hex(00) byte, and pass it to a function which will read the memofile.
At the moment VB thinks that my string is empty due to the hex(00) byte.
Must I directly pass the database field context to the translate / read function?
If so do you have a kind of example?

Regards, Peter van Collenburg