FW: FW: BLOB documentation
-----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.iiug.org]On Behalf Of Jonathan Leffler Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 3:52 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: FW: BLOB documentation Dirk Moolman wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-informix-list@iiug.iiug.org > [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.iiug.org]On Behalf Of Obnoxio The Clown > Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 4:50 PM > Subject: Re: BLOB documentation > > In the year of Our Lord Mon, 8 Jan 2001 16:00:41 +0200, "Dirk Moolman" > <dirkm@reach.co.za> broke a vow of silence to utter: > > >Another question, where can I find information about BLOB spaces ? I need > >to study up about this. We are starting to store images and I have never > >actually worked with BLOBS. > > > >So I'll need all the info, how to maintain them, what to look out for, etc. > >etc. > > >"Have you tried the manuals?" he asked, knowingly... > > Yes, I am busy going through them. But there are many manuals and I thought > I might have skipped one specific to BLOBs. I am looking at the sysadmin > manual. There is also a reference to and ESQL/C programmers manual which I > do not have. >Look in the OnLine Admins Guide for info about blob spaces (beware, IUS >has smart blob spaces as well as blob spaces). >Get the missing manuals from http://www.informix.com/answers. Yes, I noticed. I played around with sbspaces and normal blobspaces yesterday. We have developers using PHP3, VB, etc. They are trying to insert and read images. I do not know the programming language. They write images by breaking them up into bytes and writing away the bytes, but how this is done I do not know. We were succesfull using the normal blobspaces. I am still reading up about the rest. Thank you for the help. Dirk -- Yours, Jonathan Leffler (Jonathan.Leffler@Informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix v1.00.PC1 -- http://www.perl.com/CPAN "I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it!"