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- Posted by irv mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Jul 13, 2004
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Brian Broker wrote: > OK, so maybe I shouldn't post when I'm in a grumpy mood but the problem > is not with Windows per se, but is with the FAT file system. FAT is a > quarter century old and was designed well before Windows and hard > drives. Sure it's been patched to support large HD's but still has many > limitations. So for the type of data mining and file storage that Kat > is dealing with, I would simply get away from FAT... Agreed. I'm not sure that is an easy thing for Kat to do, however. There are probably good reasons she doesn't want to move to XP. I wonder if it would be possible to store all these files in a Euphoria database? I'm thinking there might be around 100megs of data - but only one filename. Irv