Hmmm. Thanks for the suggestion, but the XML output has already converted the binary image to a hex format that should be immune to that - heres the first few lines of the XML

< xml xmlns:s='uuid:BDC6E3F0-6DA3-11d1-A2A3-00AA00C14882'
xmlns:dt='uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882'
xmlns:rs='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset'
xmlns:z='#RowsetSchema'>
< s:Schema id='RowsetSchema'>
< s:ElementType name='row' content='eltOnly' rs:CommandTimeout='30'>
< s:AttributeType name='LNAME' rs:number='1' rs:writeunknown='true'>
< s:datatype dt:type='string' rs:dbtype='str' dt:maxLength='16' rs:fixedlength='true' rs:maybenull='false'/>
< /s:AttributeType>
< s:AttributeType name='PICTURE' rs:number='2' rs:writeunknown='true'>
< s:datatype dt:type='bin.hex' dt:maxLength='2147483647' rs:long='true' rs:maybenull='false'/>
< /s:AttributeType>
< s:AttributeType name='PICTUREEXT' rs:number='3' rs:writeunknown='true'>
< s:datatype dt:type='string' rs:dbtype='str' dt:maxLength='4' rs:fixedlength='true' rs:maybenull='false'/>
< /s:AttributeType>
< s:extends type='rs:rowbase'/>
< /s:ElementType>
< /s:Schema>
< rs:data>
< z:row LNAME='Crandall ' PICTURE='424d5ea00000000000001e04000028000000c8000000c800000001000800000000
00409c00000000000000000000fa000000fa00000000000000000080000080000000808000800000008000800080800000808080002424
1c00544c9400343c5c009c9cac005c646c006c7494005c3c6c0084749c00443c7c002c2c3c00bcb4cc00444c5c008c7cb4003c444c0074