>Well, what is large?
>
>Most of what we have as large reports are in the 10,000 to 20,000 page
>range.

  What's that in MegaBytes?  If they are fairly solid printing of text,
that might give 40 lines/page averaging 50 characters/line = 2KB/page.
That's 2MB per 1000 pages.  So the "large reports" are 20-40MB.  That's
more than one wants to have on one web page, but not out of line for a
report that one intentionally downloads.

  If the reports are divided into many sections, then the sections might
fit, one per web page.

>Then, we have our "large" reports, ranging from 200,000 to
>600,000 pages.  Yep, we do print them.  But they have very little
>content on them.  They compress very well.

  I'm not going to guess the MB size of these - but "very little
content" translates into not-huge files, even if not compressed.

  If the searching does a good job of identifying the target files, then
accessing them via the web might be reasonable.

--henry schaffer
> ...

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