>>Dunno Agnes, but if you were to create a cursor with a general field, append general and use that field in the cursor to display it on your form ?
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>I thought of this as a last resort. The problem is that I need to write the field over and over, so the file will be huge after a while. (Even a temp one).
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>Agnes

Why ? It will be your only option from the likes of it

(1) You can zap a cursor, append + append general [LINK]

(2) You can define a view on the table with an empty general field
- general field = not updatable
- requery view
- scan all
- append general [ LINK]
- endscan
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(3) there is a LINK option in the append general

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(4) you can 'clear' the general field
To remove an OLE object from a general field, issue APPEND GENERAL GeneralFieldName (GeneralFieldName is the name of the general field to clear) without any additional arguments.