Database idea
- Posted by Grape Vine <chat_town at HOTMAIL.COM> Mar 18, 1999
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Hiya all, I got a idea for a database... I have twin 1.7gb HD's... I have 250m free...not much left for Windows Virtual Mem .... My prob is i have alot programs that i have downloaded... I hate downloading so i keep a backup of them in ace/rar/zip formats... I went a got partion magic 4.0 from a frined and was going to use 1k clusters... cant unless i resize the partion and cant do that unless i delete and i dont want to do that and bla bla bla bla... just a big hassle.. not worth it.. yet.. so i was thinking just store the whole mess in one big data base.. use one puplic key for all files...not realy a great way but i think it will be smaller then having a key for each files that way it is now...also there could me 4 or 5 differnt keys and the progrma selects the key that will give the largest compression... like key A for texts files... also just converting text files to 7 bit bytes is a big savings too..(some of my text files are a few megs in size) ... then use key B for exe files ... windows exe's nomaly have large amounts of space in them so many exe's could "match" each other in a compressable way.. like the first..64 or so bytes is almost always the little dos front end.. "this program can not be run in dos mode" then exits... I forgot just where i was going with this... =).... This ever happen to you? a thought that was full and growing then ~poof~ you have no idea what it was? Hope someone can see where i was going ... GV Need... Does it outway Rights??? Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com