Finally, I did the following... I had a general field in my table.

lcMyPict = "myincludedfile.bmp"
objPict = LOADPICTURE(lcMyPict)
lcPictFile = "c:\temp\" + lcMyPict
SAVEPICTURE(objPict, lcPictFile)
SELECT (myTable)
APPEND GENERAL figure FROM (lcPictFile)
ERASE "&lcPictFile"