Larry,

This code works exactly the same...

create table memotest1 ( cfilename c(50), m1 m nocptrans )

lcfile = "C:\My Documents\apollo 11 flag.jpg"
insert into memotest1 values ( justfname( lcfile ), filetostr( lcFile ) )

lcfile = "C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\Clear 10 Hurdles to Web Services Success.eml"
insert into memotest1 values ( justfname( lcfile ), filetostr( lcFile ) )

scan
   strtofile( m1, justfname( cFileName ) )
endscan

>Thanks it works, amazing, would not work with a sql insert, but works with the replace. No matter it works, you saved me a bunch of VB learning