Try to change field type from General to Memo (binary) and write memo contents to a file with STRTOFILE().

>We have a SQL table that contains GIF images of our scanned service documents, we also have a VFP system that allows users to view a history of account for a customer and would like to add the option to view the original service document.
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>We have been able to create the remote view and return the record that we want but when we try to view the General field we get the error 'OLE object is invalid or corrupted.'
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>Have we done something wrong??
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>Regards Michael