Martin, I do NOT know how to do it with GENERAL field type; however, I am
currently doing it with *.jpg, *.gif, etc by storing the original into a
MEMO field and then using "ImageN" fll to display it - VERY VERY FAST PRODUCT.
I also store the name of the file stored in the memo field into a character
field, then just "copy to file" - it works fine.

Before I went to MEMO field completely I tried storing both as a GENERAL field
AND a memo field. It worked but fpt bloat was horrendous. I discovered the
Imagen product in a newsgroup - go to htt;://www.jpg.com for info and a free
demo fll or ocx. Good luck.

Carl R. Perkins, NJ5J Software Corp.





>Hello, thanks for taking the time to look at my post.
>
>We have an scanning application that scans "x" number of documents and "read" and "catalog" the bar code in each of those documents, it then creates a record in a VFP table with the "interpreted" bar code and it inserts the image into a GENERAL FIELD.
>Up to this point, everything works well.
>
>THE PROBLEM:
>
>Now I want to be able to "RECOVER" the images stored in those General Fields to their original format ( TIF ) and I know that is possible to do this with BMP files, so far I wrote a function that do this and it works fine with BMP's, but I need to recover TIF's.
>
>If anyone can give me a hint on how to accomplish this will be appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Martin Ayon