"Chris DiPierro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> > I thought files on cards were just memory handles like everything else.
> > Reocrds in databases are just memory handles. Ought to be easy to get
> > both to work -- or am I assuming wrong?
>
> No, files on expansion cards are just that, files. You need to use the VFS
> routines to access them. There are some VFS routines that you can use to
> access .pdb files on a card like they are in memory, but that's not how
> you'd go about accessing random .jpg files on a card.

Okay, so if I wanted to treat them as a block of memory I'd have to read
them into main memory first?

That doesn't seem too bad as long as the JPEGs are relatively small.



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