> From: "Alan McDonald" <alan@...>
> 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?

Only drawback is that data would travel over wire uncompressed.

> 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.

Blob filter suport is not transparent - application must explicitely ask the server
to use blob filter (and I doubt IBX can do that).

Ivan