General fields can't be converted into anything, so they're totally useless outside of VFP. You can't convert them into XML for example, so this is why general fields are ignored.

XML can't deal with binary data without encoding anyway so the point is pretty much moot.

+++ Rick ---

>>>I am selecting records out of a VCX file to return to a client using IIS,wwipstuff.
>>>When I get the XML on the client and decode it into a cursor, the binary data in the OLE field is FUBAR.
>>>Any suggesions?
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>>What code is running on the server to return the table contents? ASP? WebConnection? Are you using wwXML to transform to and from cursor? Any reason you need to use XML for this instead of EncodeDBF and DecodeDBF?
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>I am using ASP and wwXML. I tried to use Encodedbf without luck.