>The old foxpro application would create a zip file that contained a basic text file. It would then append the zip file to the memo field of a foxpro table. I am attempting to duplicate this process using c# but the vfpoledb does not appear to like the APPEND MEMO command. I am able to insert into the table, including the memo field but I am finding now that my issue is that I'm storing the contents of the zip file to a variable incorrectly, so even though I'm getting data into the memo field I am not getting it there in the correct format. When I attempt to extract the data back out of the dbf and write it to a file so I can open it with winzip I get an error for "invalid zip file or corrupt zip file". I've tested it with just a regular text file and I don't have any problems with this so I know it has to do with how I'm attempting to first store the contents of the zip file to a variable by using File.ReadAllText.
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>Basically I just need to get a zip file into a memo field of a vfp table using c#.

You should probably use a binary based method with the zip file. Maybe:

byte[] buffer = File.ReadAllBytes(filename);