>Sorry about the premature posting, figured it out on my own for a change.
>

Select Distinct ALLTRIM(fpimage) as fpimage From cExport ;
>	INTO Cursor cimg

>
>thanks anyway

Steve,
Just be careful doing that because I think that will truncate the resulting fpimage field to the length of the first record. You could use Left(fpimage,250) instead.
HTH
Carloline