POSIX bytestream files are perfectly suited for storing BLOBs.  A bytestream
file is just an arbitrary string of bytes up to 2GB.  No record formats or
record lengths to worry about!

- Mark B.

Neil Harvey wrote:
> In my experience, the POSIX layer and directory structure works well for
> this purpose.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne R. Boyer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 11 December 2000 07:57
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: IMAGE Blobs
>
> Back to blobs for a moment...
>
> Even if a clever scheme is developed to store a blob of whatever into an
> Image database, it first has to exist on the system as some type of file
> (unless somebody gets even more clever).  As such it would be very very very
> helpful to have an organized consistent method of storing various PC file
> types on a MPE system.  That way software that uses these files will work
> consistently from one system to the next regardless of what software
> originally created the file.  I'd like to see HP add in a bunch of file
> codes
> for various PC filetype extensions.  This works by the way but doesn't
> really
> create a TIFF...
>
> :BUILD THEBLOB;CODE=TIFF
>
> Once file codes are assigned to various file types, some mechanism needs to
> be created to create the files in a standard manner.
>
> So if I want to get my little 3000 up to speed and use it to supply product
> photos to Apache and such, how do I go about it?
>
> Wasn't that a bunch of open ended questions???
>
> Wayne

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