No help, I've tried several solutions and it's not happening. Maybe the file is corrupted. I'm going to try to get another file.

John



>Hi John.
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>I dont think you can use FILETOSTR() because of possible char convertions etc. Instead you can use the Binary Memo field of a table or cursor. Create a table/cursor with such a field. Then use APPEND MEMO to read in an image file and COPY MEMO to write it out to another file.
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>hth
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>>I've got a small problem trying to reconstruct a jpg file from a single stream text file. VFP appears to be adding some chars to the mix. To test this hypothesis, I took a good jpg file and read it in to a var using filetostr.
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>>lcfile=filetostr('x.jpg')
>>Then I created another file using
>>strtofile(lcfile,'123.jpg',1)
>>strtofile(lcfile,'123.jpg',1)
>>strtofile('this is garbage','123.jpg',1)
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>>I would have thought I should be able to write a routine that looked for the jpeg's (SOI) Start of Image [ÿØÿà] and (EOI) End of Image [ÿÙ] and pull the image from the stream. However, this is not working. Even if I get a string using the above search criteria, VFP is adding to the mix.
>>
>>Has anyone else tackled this problem?
>>
>>John