High,

What do you like to do with your generl field?
Read the data back to disc or display it on a form?

If you like to display it then you neet an OLEBOUNDCONTROL. Set the controlsource to your general field.
(Important: The general field stores OLE data. That is VFP calls the programm bound to the filetype and this provides the data stored in the gernal field and information about itself. If you like to display your GENERAL on an second comp you need to have the [display-]programm on this as well.)

Bound to the way the data is stored there is no simple way to "resotere" the file that is stored inside a general field.


Agnes
>Hey,
>I want to store the snaps(in JPEG Format) of employee to the database.
>I use a picture control to show this image on the form.
>While saving the snaps I can directly save it to the database using...
>
>APPEND GENERAL em_photo FROM z:\data\images\ku0001.jpg
>
>But while retriving the same, I am not able to do the same.
>Please suggest me a way out.
>Thanks in advance.