>Hi Ed,
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>>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.
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>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.
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>http://www.compaxion.co.uk
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>Christof

Christof,

I had looked into Compaxion because it seemed like exactly what I wanted. However, their web site says that Compaxion is not available and won't be until June 2001 (I guess they are still working on it?). I checked with the four distributors that they list on their web site and none of them have it listed while Hallogram shows it as no longer available. I emailed the company and all they said was that they do not license Compaxion in the United States.

Do you know what is happening with them? I'm really hoping to avoid having to write my own compression/decompression program just for this.

Ed