I have a database (.mdb) file which is 10MB. Every month the file has to be sent out on a standard floppy disk- this is done in a vb program. The file is then taken from the disk and placed in the correct directory in another vb program on another computer.<br><br>I need to know how I can have vb compress this file from 10MB to fit onto a floppy disk (if this is even possible) on the first machine, and then have it uncompress it once it get to the other machine.<br><br>I'm using VB5 Enterprise edition. Thanks in advance for your support.<br><br>-Brandr Beekman<br><A HREF="mailto:bbeekman@rbscorp.com">bbeekman@rbscorp.com</A>
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Compressing a File
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Karl Blessing
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in Access97 (and up) if you open the Access file in there, theres a section under ther Tools portion of the menu bar, that compresses the Access DB, typically Access may store codes, and what not that used it until you compress it, it was weird is that when I viewed one of my uncompressed Access DB under a hexeditor, it had stored alot of my VB Codes, as well as Some VC++ codes of the projects that accessed it, kinda creeped me out. <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.com>kb244@kb244.com</a><br><a href= </a><br>Experienced in : C++(both VC++ and Borland),VB1(dos) thru VB6, Delphi 3 pro, HTML, Visual InterDev 6(ASP(WebProgramming/Vbscript)<br>
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