>>How to copy the contents of a blob field in a table into an array of bytes.
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>VFP doesn't have byte data type. Please clarify.

It does *sortof*. I've defined arrays as byte (DIME aTest[100] as BYTE, aTest = 'X') to pass to COM servers and they are recognized as VT_UI1. TYPE() in VFP returns 'N'. I guess it depends on what the array is to be used for.