>I am trying to access a compressed file(pkzip) which is stored in the memo field of a VFP table. When I issue the select statement from c# using the new oledbdriver all I get back is the first few chars (up to the first chr(0)??
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>Does anyone know how I can get the whole text string?

Try casting it to a byte array (byte[]) rather than a string...

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