>>It sould be possible if you can find where actual document starts in a General field. For example, PDF always starts with '%PDF-'.
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>Wow, this works. Does anyone know of the marker for a Word and an Excel file?
When the first version of VFP9 was released there was a site named reportlistener.com. There was a report listener that export a General fields to a files.
Here what I get after some searches:
http://reportlistener.leafe.com/Maybe Ed Leafe could help you. Also I'm not sure if it exports ALL kind of documents stored in general fields, but you could ask him.
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