Mohammed,

I checked a similar discussion on a Russian website.

Here is a link that may help you (I didn't try this approach myself):

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894819/EN-US/

another link from that thread http://www.foxite.com/archives/export-general-field-to-jpg-file-0000035830.htm

The thread itself (in Russian): http://forum.foxclub.ru/read.php?29,396197,page=1


>hi all,
>
>any help to open general field as below
>

>LPARAMETERS nColIndex
> *lcNew=(mytable.fieldname)&&error Operation is invalid for a General field 
> *lcNew=(mycur.fieldname)  &&error Operation is invalid for a General field 
> ? lcNew
>
>IF NOT EMPTY(SYS(2000,m.lcNew))
>   declare long ShellExecute in "shell32.dll" ;
>           long hwnd, string lpszOp, ;
>           string lpszFile, string lpszParams, ;
>           string lpszDir, long nShowCmd
>   ShellExecute(0,'Open', m.lcNew, 0,0,1)
>ELSE
>   MESSAGEBOX("EMPTY")
>ENDIF
>
>

>thanks