>>>>Is there an opposite of APPEND GENERAL? One that allows me to copy a general field into a file on disk?
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>>>>Hilmar.
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>>>Is Copy Memo any good?
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>>I don't know - according to the documentation, it only seems to be designed for memo fields. General fields are in the same .FPT file, but hold quite a different kind of information.
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>>Hilmar.
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>I guess that it will depend on what you are going to do with the file afterwards!
OK, a member of an other discussion group asked this question - but the situation seems to be that pictures are currently saved in a general field. I recommended to use JPG files instead. So, the basic idea is to convert pictures, saved in a general field, to JPG - or to any graphic format, for that matter.
Hilmar.
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