Doug, How did or do you check the size of a "file"? Can you do it within the database or did you have to check it in the temp directory as you were creating it? Thanks, Laura
"Neither of us [Yoko and I] want to make the mistake that Gandhi and Martin Luther King did, which is get killed one way or the other. Because people only like dead saints, and I refuse to be a saint or a martyr." (John Lennon, 1969) >------ original message ------ >from: doug martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [Braillenote] anatomy of a database and why >AHi, Roselle. I was one of those waiting for your long database >instructions. I did a lot of experimenting myself, but have not found a >few of the things you include here. I wish I had an infinite amount of >time, like you my dear! Actually, that would be countably infinite, since >we don't know the anatomy of eternal life! >I couldn't find a suitable definition for array anywhere, so thanks for the >clarification. The field type, File, is an interesting beasty. The >contents of such a field appears to be stored in the temp folder while it >is being created, and moved later to the .cdb file. I have had system >crashes while creating a really big File in a database, and found the thing >stored in the temp folder. I believe the maximum size of the thing is >slightly less than 32768 bytes. >Aloha, >Doug
