Inserting images into table

Hi!

I'm working on an application, which has to read and write images (GIFs) from/to Oracle 7 database. System administrator created table with Developer 2000 and he described that one column consists of images.

We looked at that column later and we've seen that that column is of type LONG RAW, not Image, as we asked to be.

     Is it possible that for every "exotic" type of data Oracle uses LONG RAW
     type?

     How can I insert images into this column? User's Guides do not describe
     this anywhere.

     Can I insert compressed GIFs to increase throughput over the Internet?

TIA Matej

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