DBI, blobs, and strings longer than 256 chars

Hi, After struggling for an afternoon trying to get blobs into an Informix database via perl and DBI, without any Informix-specific docs, I wondered is there a data type that supports strings longer than 256 chars without resorting to blobs. All transactions are carried out via SQL. The database is storing some HTML so nothing more than 32KB would be needed. MSAccess can manage this, so I figured Informix can too. Best wishes, Steven Please send a copy to smith@avl.com if possible.