Sadly, no. We have no control over the consumer application of the required data file. It cannot accept the data in chunks or pieces. It cannot accept a data stream either so providing it data on the fly is out of the question. It can only accept it as a single data file. Otherwise we would have pushed for this a long time ago....
It seems like this is quite a difficult problem to address. Maybe Windows is not the best platform to be running for our needs. We have seen other O/S that can do this very easily. John Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "Discussion of advanced .NET topics." <ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM> 02/05/2008 11:02 AM Please respond to "Discussion of advanced .NET topics." <ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM> To ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM cc Subject Re: Join/Merge multiple files together > Is it at all possible to combine 2 (or more) data files together without > A) opening the data files to read and B) creating a "new" file out of > them? Can you change the problem to make it easier to solve? Depending upon what you need to do with the end-product, can you change the reading application to use an index or other mechanism to indicate the set of files to read? Can you create a file-reader shim that aggregates the files on the fly whilst reading? Can you change the application that generates these files to append to a single file? Just trying to understand why you have to have exactly one file to work with, since that seems to be causing you difficulties. John =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
