See BLOB contents on Oracle FORMS

Is there anyway that I can see the BLOB object contents in Oracle Forms? For example, if I have a word document in BLOB, I should be able to open it in Oracle forms. I've already posted this today, but just for clarification, I'm reposting this with exact requirements. My client wishes to see data from a table and in that a BLOB object is one of the columns. For each row, there is a word document, which should also be displayed (or at least a link) on Form. If clicked on the link, the BLOB content, i.e., the word document should get opened. Please let me know if there is any way. Francois was trying to help me, I think this explanation makes it clear for him and also others. I don't have webutil library and my Forms version is 6.0.8.18.3. Please help me soon. I'm in an urgent realease this weekend and need this deliberately. It is not possible to upgrade to newer version for me.
Thanks
Sarma.

In fact, I just had to do this today. It works as expected using an image item on the BLOB column. I am at 10.1.2.0.2, if that makes any difference. Are you positive you have data in the BLOB column? I noticed that after loading a table with image items, I used SQL Developer to look at the table to ensure there was data in the rows. After that, the images no longer appeared in the form. I had to reload the table, then all was well again.

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