Thanks. I'll try this out.
>>I have a table with a general field that would contain Excel worksheets. What I need is a way to extract the contents of the general field to their native format. I used APPEND GENERAL genfield FROM xlfile. What's the "opposite" of this command?
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>>Regards,
>>
>>jun
>>ramoneem@mail.aramco.com.sa
>As John said you could modify general and saveas or do it programmatically (your mother tongue is also not English so I got your question how to save a copy ) :
use myTable
>oform = createobject("form")
>with oForm
> .addobject("olbW","Oleboundcontrol")
> .height = 420
> .width = 620
> with .olbW
> .top = 0
> .left = 400
> .height = 400
> .width = 600
> .controlsource = mytable.mygenfield
> .object.saveas(cFilename)
> endwith
> .release
>endwith
>
>Cetin