'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe

Dim s As String
s = String(2, "0")
Debug.Print s

Ok, I'm a fool. That code does what I want it to do. The following code in my program:

RSet s = Hex(1)

most certainly does not do what I wanted it to do, as it appears that RSet will replace leftover characters with spaces. Which kind of negates the whole point of padding the string with zeros in the first place. Grrr.

Entish

To which race of Middle Earth do you belong?
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Never thought of myself as an Ent. I was thinking more of Gandalf, although that's a characted, not a race. Hmm...

Well, I made some progress with the list I posted. Found a new API call in the MSDN library (InitiateSystemShutdown) for the booking program and wrote a test C++ program. Sucessfully shutdown my other PC with it. Now all I need to do is to transfer it to VB, unless I change my mind and develop everything in C++. I might do that actually, as everything is going to be NT4/2k/XP, and that will let me use a Unicode-based system with Unicode API calls. Plus, there's less overhead. Maybe if I use named pipes or something for inter-PC communication. It'll make coding it easier, and I could do with the experience with C++. I'll probably not use MFC for this - I think I'll find it easier that way, and it reduces the overhead.