[VXCMD] Help with Text fields

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 6/18/05 10:27 AM, "Peter McConachie" <pmccon at bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> 1. Seems not to write anything to cData. On read BLOB_GetDataSize return
> zero
 
> 2. If I change the TEXT field to VarBinary[65300] then it works OK.
> I need to remove the BLOB_GetDataSize command (gives a 310 error) contrary
> to documentation.
> 
> 3. Should I be using BLOB_WriteData instead of Binary_WriteData ? However if
> this is the case how does one get the data out of the MemoryBuffer ?

OF COURSE you need to use BLOB_WriteData()
 
> 4. Is there some easier way to add/retrieve large text files ?

It should be easy.

Just forget Binary_xxx methods. They are for BINARY fields.

BLOB is NOT Binary field


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Ruslan Zasukhin
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Paradigma Software, Inc

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