Daniel, The function call is fh_FdbMsgQuery. The structure is shown below. It's defined in <aimhistorian.h>. It's been a while since I used it but I have a sample program which I can send you off list. fh_FdbMsgQuery(historian, m_tmEndTime, m_tmStartTime, filter, (char*)ptr_hdr, lbody, &more, &reterr); John Kinsley Saudi Aramco -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Klebba, Daniel Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 11:15 PM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [foxboro] Retrieving String Values with AIM*API We are wondering if anyone has experience using AIM*API with Visual Studio 6.0 to talk to AIM*Historian in the C language. We are running an off-platform historian on a Windows 2000 box. We can use the an_hist_values() function or Fh_FdbGetValues() function to retrieve floating point values from the database. However, we can't seem to find a function to read string values. Clearly it can be done using the Excel interface or OLEDB, but what about function calls from the C language? Thanks for any help you can give. Daniel Klebba ATK Thiokol _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave