> > > maybe you could write a UDF with the TRichView component which has
> > > SavetoStream, LoadfromStream functions.
> > > Alan
> > >
> > That was already proposed to me in a Delphi forum.
> > But as described in my earlier post the line "RichEdit1.Plaintext :=
> > true" (apparently it was this line) caused the Firebird server to crash.
> >
> > Urs
>
> I'm not talking about that component. I'm talking about TRichView which
> doesn't have a plaintext property, only method to convert from
> native RVF to
> RTF or Plaintext.
> Alan
> see http://www.trichview.com/
>

in any case, what are you really needing to do? this doesn't sound like a
great thing to do at the back end anyway.
Alan