> if you need BMP and cannot use JPG, then a good way could be,
> to use ZIP, store the Picture in the zipped format, and extract it
> after fetching out of the db ...
> -> you could use the Zipmaster Component:
> http://www.geocities.com/rjpeters_au/zipmaster.html
>
> regards
> -Gerhard
>

This is what I'd like to do Gerard, I need to be able to intercept the
storage of the binary file, though, before update or insert and zip the
stream - do you know how/where to intercept it in the native datasets?
Alan