Storing images using C++

Hi All,
I need to store images in form of BLOB to Oracle 8i (8.1.6) database. The program that is accessing Oracle runs on Windows and is written in C++. Can anyone send me a sample code how to store images to the database.
TIA
Roumen :-)

Hi
I had a project with this task. I haven't source because it was not part of may job but we used Oracle Objects for OLE and it was very easy. There was examples in help files of OO4O.
It is easy to use OO4O from C++ if you write Windows application instead of direct OCI calls.
Regards
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