>hi again,
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>i have a little app that references about ten table and index files. is there any way on god's green earth that i can somehow combine all these files into one file - sorta like an Access .MDB file - and then distribute it?? i first thought of a simple solution such as having them in a zip file and unzipping them in the beginning and then zipping them up at the end. however this solution is way too slow. any suggestions or am i SOL?
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>thanks,
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>n.
Not in VFP. You could do this if you switched to MSDE (SQL Server tables are stored in two files, .DAT and .LOG) or you could actually use an Access MDB and connect via remote views.
Why would you want to do this?
Dan LeClair
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