<<For all those people who want to store bitmaps and like in blobs - even word
documents or other non pure text formats in blobs, wouldn't be great to have
a zip filter over the top of such blobs? So you could just set a subtype of
te subtype or some such. That way all the controls (e.g. IBO or IBX image
datalinked controls would still be able to read and write image binaries but
the filter would compress, uncompress them on write and read operations.>>

Sure but that means somebody has to write it :-)

Regards
Paul