> <<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
>

Sorry it's just a theoretical - it just inverts the file - it doesn't
actually zip it
Alan