The R:BASE BLOB Editor is an integrated data utility to manage Large OBjects (LOBs) and Binary Large OBjects (BLOBs) within R:BASE.
LOBs are basically large ASCII data files. These objects refer to text files that can be in any ASCII format, including RTF. The recommended data type for large text files is VARCHAR. Within the R:BASE BLOB Editor, the LOB data is manipulated from the "Rich Text" and "Unicode Text" tabs. A Hex Editor is also available to manipulate binary data.
You can add, edit, or delete Binary Large Objects (BLOBs) within your database files. R:BASE recognizes the following file formats for images: BMP, JPG, GIF, WMF, PCX, EPS, SVG, TIF, PNG, ICO, EMF, WMF, and more. The R:BASE BLOB Editor has also been enhanced to manage multipage images. This enhancement will allow users to manage multipage images, such as .DCX, .GIF, or .TIFF files, when saved as BLOB data in R:BASE. The recommended data type for images is VARBIT.
The data for VARBIT and VARCHAR data types is stored in the fourth R:BASE database file.
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