Re: [OT] files/dir on windoze
On 13 Jul 2004, at 9:50, Patrick Barnes wrote:
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> Actually, I wouldn't try and use longer filenames if I could...
> Why not use as many characters as you can -
> 01234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ - and store them that way....
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> 5.3 format (assuming all the extensions have the same 3 letters) gives
> you 60,466,176 combinations - 60 million ought to be plenty...
> If the name of the file was to have meaning, then you could embed that
> in the file itself as meta-data - after all, the files would have to
> be parsed anyway, to see what the header info was.
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> What was the driving force in using separate files?
Data mining, and discovering after 2 days, the directory was full, and there
was no room to store more data, unless i came up with an artificial way to
categorise the data, and the data from other programs, and a different more
complicated method to merge and search the datum. It's like,, i haveto know
how much data there is, in what form, before i can even store the
10megabytes on a 10gig drive??
Kat
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