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From: dberg@informix.com (David I. Berg)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: database containing gray-scale graphic images
Message-ID: <1990Dec20.201449.15443@informix.com>
Date: 20 Dec 90 20:14:49 GMT
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In article <1990Dec19.181537.10103@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> ccy@po.CWRU.Edu (Cheung C. Yue) writes:
>
>I wonder if anyone knows of database programs which will handle
>both text and graphics.
>We have both Mac's and IBM's at our site, so information on programs 
>for either of those platforms will be appreciated.

Informix databases can store graphic images in the form of Binary Large
OBjectS (BLOBS). To the database user, they appear as columns in
a table. They are actually stored in "blobspaces" on disk. The blob-
spaces are managed by the DB engine. They can be retreived to a file
and processed by any software designed to do so, such as our graphics
software product Wingz. Wingz runs on the Mac, under Windows, Open
View, and soon OSF/MOTIF. Using our client/server architecture
product Datalink, Wingz can interact with any Informix datbase on any
platform via TCP/IP. 
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