>>>>>I want to pull several zip files into a dbf (1 per record)
>>>>>
>>>>>I tried to use filetostr and store it into a memo field but that didn't work.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>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?
>>>
>>
>>The following works just fine:
>>
>>CREATE TABLE DUMMY (MyMemo M)
>>APPEND BLANK
>>APPEND MEMO MyMemo FROM MyZip.ZIP
>>COPY MEMO MyMemo TO ANOTHER.ZIP
>>
>>You should be able to operate on ANOTHER.ZIP with no problem; it should have the same file size and content as MyZip.ZIP (I checked using FC, and it shows the two files as absolutely identical.)
>>
>>Using the same example DUMMY.DBF
>>
>>SELECT 0
>>CREATE TABLE XYZZY (Foo C(1) Bar I)
>>INSERT INTO XYZZY VALUES ('Hello',42)
>>INSERT INTO XYZZY VALUES ('Bye-Bye',-42)
>>USE
>>SELECT DUMMY
>>APPEND BLANK
>>APPEND MEMO MyMemo FROM XYZZY.DBF
>>COPY MEMO MyMemo TO PLUGH.DBF
>>SELECT 0
>>USE PLUGH
>>BROWSE
>>
>>>Thanks Again
>>>
>>>Scott Vanden Elzen
>
>Ed:
>
>You'll run into problems storing binary data in a plain memo field if you use different code pages. To create a binary memo field on the fly, use NOCPTRANS in your create table comand:
>
>CREATE TABLE DUMMY (MyMemo M NOCPTRANS)
>
>Thanks to John K. for pointing this out to me.

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