Hi Ed,


>It was just that when I saw that the whole thing would take up about 6 Gigs no matter how I sliced it, I realized that my real concern at the moment was pure file size. The file has to fit on a CD and be accessed directly from the CD. I would normally say that this is impossible but I'm looking at the fact that other vendors are apparently doing this. I just have no idea how or in what language they are working.

Check out Compaxion by XiTech (the makers of Cryptor, ReFox and FoxFix). It compresses an entire directory into a single file, but accessing it is transparent. That is, you can open a table inside this compressed file with the USE command, for example, without having to decompress it first. The price you pay is speed.

http://www.compaxion.co.uk

Christof