>>>what is the dbf format to hold an image
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>>If you are using native VFP tables, then do not hold image within the table but just the path to image.
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>But I am converting the file to htm and I want to send it to my client with the image in the htm

If you're converting this to HTML and only sending HTML to the client, then you can embed the image into HTML using data:uri format. You don't have to include the actual content of the image into DBF if the process creating HTML has access to the server holding the images.