Insert data into LOB column

> Hi!
>
> I am new to working with LOBs. I want to insert data (through
> SQL or PL/SQL)
> into a table that looks like this:
>
> column1 varchar2(100)
> column2 BLOB
> column3 number
>
> How can I insert data into that table directly?
>
> insert into table (column1, colum2, column3) values ('sample
> text', ?????, 12345);
>
> The BLOB can be a TXT-file or GIF-picture or bmp-picture. The file is
> locally stored on the hard drive.
>
> This is 8.1.6 on Win2k.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Helmut

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