Hi!

>Still, storing lots of files directly in the database might approach the 2 GB limit - whereas storing the files separately, the individual files will not give this size problem. Although the total space may be similar, according to your comments.
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Of course, it can approach 2 GB limit. However, storing files inside of database might be a requirement by customer.

>>I think you can just extract documents into temporary disk file, scan them, then delete them if they're ok or update them if some of them were infected and fixed.
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>The original poster wanted to know the command-line arguments to do this automatically. This is precisely the part where I couldn't help.
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I'm almost sure that this is not possible. Such products like Anti-Viruses does not care about General field, because its structure is not known and very hard to manipulate outside of VFP. I can bet they even did not knew about possibility to store Word doc into General field inside of FPT file < g >. I think there are no such command-line options, and thus files should be extracted to temp files on disk for scanning.

BTW, this might be a new idea to spread the VFP world by new MS Word doc virus < vbg > - by VFP's general fields.