Help! - Attempting to write Word document to an Oracle DB field

Hi,

     I am currently trying to write an application that can store Word 7 documents on an Oracle V7.3.3 database table. I have set up a table containing a LONGRAW field to hold the binary data, but I seem to be having all sorts of problems in trying to get Delphi (V3) to save the Word document to the table correctly. I have tried loading the file into TMemoryStreams and TBlobStreams before writing the data to the database table, although neither method seems to work. The document would appear to be undergoing some sort of conversion, because although it appears that the data has been saved to the DB table, when I try to read the data again, it appears as a mess of ASCII control characters (which may hve originated in the original document). Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Graeme Oliver Received on Thu May 07 1998 - 16:48:29 CDT