Alex;
Thanks for the reply. The only two functions that I find with 'general' as a part of them are the 'APPEND BLANK' and 'MODIFY GENERAL', and neither one allows me to save the data from a general field into a file. I just know that there has to be a way to do this.

Regards

Kia



>Hi Kia,
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>There is a function that I think does exactly what you want. Run a search for "general" on the vfp help file.
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>If I remember correctly it's two functions; one for getting a file's contents into a field and the other to output the field's contents to a file.
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>Getgeneral() maybe? sorry, I can't remember more.
>
>alex

>>I need to write a program to read the information from the Pictures field and save it as a BMP file.