led mike wrote: Sorry but that is counter the VB way of life. You "start" by dragging and dropping controls onto a form. All the rest of the development is insignificant overpaid typing. Hehehe, touche' :-D The early bird who catches the worm works for someone who comes in late and owns the worm farm. -- Travis McGee

Have you got any similar information that doesn't need knowledge of PHP?

steve_a_p wrote: But 2 bits will be lost, won't they? Of course not, that would be pointless. All the bits are distributed across characters. Three bytes (3*8 bits) are stored in four characters (4*6 bits). --- single minded; short sighted; long gone;