Here's the story, I'm used to QB, and have 'basically' learned to program in VB the rough way, through the online help, and primarialy my programming tends to occur inside Excel. So now I got a situation where I need to use CVL, or ConVert Long, to take a compacted value and extract it to a decimal value. Only the best info I've found leads me to using the CopyMemory alias function, courtesy of a heavy duty search of MS which lead to Windows API Guide for it details many API functions. Only it don't work, the values are very different.
I really hate asking questions like this over in the newsgroups which are supposed to help people with questions like this for what seems to happen is a MVSP answers the question, and if their answer doesn't work, obviously you're too stupid to understand it.