At 06:43 AM 17-10-00 +0000, you wrote:

>Does this mean:
>
>(1) I need to find the original .gif files (which currently seems to
>be the only supported format by Paradox)

No! all you need is a binary stream from blob to blob.

>(2) Write e.g. a c program with embedded sql statements
> (based on, declare cursor etc ...)

Hmm, if you must.

>(3) Preprocess it with gpre
>
>(4) Compile it (e.g. with gcc)

..all this if C is your only programming tool.

>to transfer a BLOB? I hoped that some existing software could cope
>with this - but that is not the case or ??

If you mean, has someone written a utility for transferring blobs - yes,
probably, and it will be sitting on his hard disk panting to be let out.

In the meantime, this is very easy to do if you have any Borland
programming environments at your disposal. Do you?

>I'm going to use the BLOBs from Paradox through the BDE (if
>possible). Are there any limitations from BDE (e.g. on segment length
><= 255) that I should know of ? Do Paradox run with a fixed segment
>length ?

No. If you have the BDE and Delphi, you can use the Datapump or write your
own Datapump. Tell us more about what you have available. The more
information you give us, the easier it will be to try and help you.

Regards,
Helen

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