>Residents' pictures are embedded in the general field.
>Since there are too much troubles with general-type-field, we decided to use a character field to store the name of file with picture.
>We can extract pictures into files manually by using command MODIFY GENERAL.
>However, because there are hundreds of users with many residents in every file, it cannot be done.
>Do you know codes that can do it in a running program?
>
>Thanks
>Ed

See if this article is helpful. http://rickschummer.com/blog/2007/04/extracting-images-out-of-general-fields.html