Steve, unless I'm wrong, about this, you should probably do it at appx 540MB. The reason is readability. Although my experience may be narrow, I've found that I can get the 640-700MB available on a CD, unless I want it to be readable in ALL PC's by ALL CD-ROM drives. Apparently it's a formatting issue related to how the FAT is allocated/written to the CD and whether or not the media is CD-R or CD-RW. Anyway, I ain't no expert here, so I've attached a couple of links f/you, just in case you need to check this out. If you already know all this, please accept my apologies f/serving as a brief time-sink against your available labor resources.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/cd3.htm http://www.cdrfaq.org/ Later, Steve in Memphis > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Steve Durham > Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 12:57 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Declaring a cursor > > > Hey Jim, > > Well that could work, but here I am doing a disaster recovery > program, and > the reason for the accurate count of megs, is that I am > automating the data > to burn to CD. When the bytes reach 700 megs in the destination folder, I > will then a have a program that will burn those files to a blank > cd waiting > in the cd burner. Then Rbase, using RMail of course will send out > an email > notifying the proper people to properly label and store the cd, > then replace > it with a blank cd. Being that this is the program database, the > file size > is constantly growing. So I need to sum the bytes. Auto numbering > would not > work. Also, I am using a temporary table. > > > >From: Jim Limburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: Declaring a cursor > >Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 10:17:16 -0700 (PDT) > > > >Hey Steve > > > >Just a thought.. If you autonumberd a column in the table the file > >information is in.. then you could use a SELECT statement to add > >the totals from 1 to the current row you are on and compare that to > >your 7000000???? total... > > > >Jim Limburg > > > >--- Steve Durham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > > > I am working with a cursor. I have Rbase moving files from > one directory > >to > > > another. Now, I only want Rbase to move 700 megs of files, oldest to > >newest > > > into the destination folder. Rbase is using a temp table that > is loaded > >with > > > information such as filename text, and bytes integer. Is it > possible to > >set > > > the cursor to a limit of 700 megs of files? I know I can run > a check on > >the > > > destination folder, upload that information into another temporary > >table, > > > and when it reaches 700, set the cursor to end. I would like > to see what > > > other options Rbase offers for completing this task. > > > > > > Thank you all, > > > SD > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > >http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. > > > > > > ================================================ > > > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > > > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > > > ================================================ > > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > > > ================================================ > > > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > > > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > >http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com > >================================================ > >TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > >Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > >================================================ > >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > >================================================ > >TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > >http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > ================================================ > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > ================================================ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > ================================================ > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
