Larry,

This works fine for me:

create table memotest1 ( cfilename c(50), m1 m nocptrans )
append blank
lcfile = "C:\My Documents\apollo 11 flag.jpg"
replace cfilename with justfname( lcfile ), m1 with filetostr( lcFile )
append blank
lcfile = "C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\Clear 10 Hurdles to Web Services Success.eml"
replace cfilename with justfname( lcfile ), m1 with filetostr( lcFile )

scan
   strtofile( m1, justfname( cFileName ) )
endscan

the code above will copy the file into the memo and then write them back out to the current directory. After running it I can double click the two new files. The JPG properly opens in IE and the EML opens up in the OE mail window.

Once you've put something into a general field, other binary data is wrapped up with the file content, so once a file has been put into a general field you will not be able to get it back out, except via a SaveAs operation of the client application it's attached to.

>I get it in, but when I try and get it back out, I lose it's contents. I tried strtofile() to hopefully recreate the email into it's original state.
>Result is the same as a general field