> No, it is simplified a bit:
>
> function TLargeintField.GetAsVariant: Variant;
> begin
> if IsNull then
> Result := Null else
> begin
> Result := GetAsLargeInt;
> end;
> end;

This implies that Variants in Delphi6 are supposed to support int64
directly.

Without having Delphi6 to guess what else is happening it is difficult
to know what must be happening in the problem described - but it still
sounds like some lack of support for int64 somewhere.

Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing