Blob Mgr 10 Ext

From chrispis@eng.auth.gr Sat Aug 14 13:02:31 1993 Date: Sat, 14 Aug 93 20:59:33 +0300 From: chrispis@eng.auth.gr (Christos Pistofidis) Subject: BLOBMgr v.1.0 Liam, This is version 1.0 of BLOBMgr. It should go to the 4d archive. Here is a short description of the package: --------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th Dimension(R) provides a big variety of data types: text, numeric, date, time, pictures and even subfiles! However, it lacks a binary variable-length data type known as BLOB (BINARY LARGE OBJECT). BLOBs are quite common in other DBMSes and they are mostly used for storing disk files in databases. BLOBMgr External Kit is a set of routines that give 4th Dimension(R) the capability of storing (and retrieving) any kind of Macintosh(R) disk files in the form of BLOBs. Picture variables and fields are used for storing BLOBs. -Danis Georgiadis Escape Information Services chrispis@eng.auth.gr