>>>>> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:58:16 +0000 (UTC),

helebor@... (Helen
Borrie) said:

HB> In Firebird, you can input a string to a blob column, which
HB> solves a lot of problems. (It will be even cooler when you
HB> can stream blobs back and forth from external files...but not
HB> today).

Could you elaborate on this? I was trying to accomplish exactly that:
I'd like to store a pathname inside a table, and be able to treat it
as an image blob, for example. My first cut at the function gave me a
"message length error"...

thanx&bye,
lele.