Hi All

A colleague and I are thinking about extracting data into a stream. This results from the fact that CursorToXML doesn't support general fields. Last night we looked at the structure of the memo field. We're using a BMP picture which was displayed using MS Paint.

The VFP docs explained some stuff, but we couldn't confirm this information. The docs say the general field holds a 10 byte pointer into the memo file (.FPT). Looking at the DBF with a Hex Editor, it seems this is a 4 byte number. We couldn't decode this number. Can someone help with that?

The size of the image file is stored in the memo file. I know its MSB, LSB formatted, but converting this from Hex to Decimal didn't return the byte size of the file as reported by the OS.

Basically, we want to return the picture as a stream of bytes from the memo field. This involves locating the data first and then reading it, probably using FOPEN/FREAD().

Thanks!