Ok, we will try the BLOB filter way, now. (I tried to post this
morning, but the post never showed up in the group).

Ann, thank you for the support offer - we browsed through the
documentation in EmbedSQL and will certainly need help.

Before going into the implementation, how can we access a BLOB filter
from an SQL select statement? Remember, the client is Crystal Reports
via ODBC, so all the examples with DECLARE CURSOR won't work for us.

How would a view declaration look like that provides access the the
converted (rather then "filtered" BLOBs)?

Mirco