>>I want to pull several zip files into a dbf (1 per record)
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>>I tried to use filetostr and store it into a memo field but that didn't work.
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>It should, but there's always the APPEND MEMO memo field FROM filename command, and its inverse, COPY MEMO memo field TO filename to extract it.
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>You need to extract the memo content to a .ZIP file before unzipping it or altering it.

Thanks for the help. Can you tell me how to create a Binary Memo field on the fly? If you look at the syntax of the alter or create table command there i a memo type m(4) but no binary memo? Any ideas?

Thanks Again

Scott Vanden Elzen