>I have an application (vfp front-end/sql server back-end). I want to retrieve image files from server (stored only the paths to database-I dont want to store the entire image to an image field(BLOB)).
>How can i transfer the files(images) to front-end (network tcp/ip) or save file to server.
>Do I need for example ftp protocol (How can i do this or is there another way) ?
>
>Thank you in advance.

Well, you could perhaps create a stored procedure that takes the file path, reads the file into a varible and passes it back to a 'passed by reference' varible to VFP.

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