Thus it was written in the epistle of Wayne R. Boyer,
> 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).

It doesn't seem that difficult . . . but that wasn't your question :).

>                                           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

How about instead just doing

:Build ./TheBlob.tiff

> Once file codes are assigned to various file types, some mechanism needs to
> be created to create the files in a standard manner.

Not sure I understand this statment.

> 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?

One option is to put SAMBA on your system.  Another is to FTP the files to the
3000 (or from another box, depending on which of the boxes has an FTP server
running).  Another is to build yourself an HTML page with a file-upload button
and use Apache itself for doing the upload.

Stick the files in one of the Apache served directories and voila, you're ready
to go.

> Wasn't that a bunch of open ended questions???

What qualifies as an open-ended question?

HTH,
Ted
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