Well, actually I did not mean to post at this stage but resort to lurking and learning, since I am still doing some rather basic experimenting with SQLite. Anyway, I followed this thread and it strikes me as a crack idea. But aren't these the most fun to hack on? ;)
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 01:06 +0200, Dimitris P. Servis wrote: > I want to do the following; save a set of 100-200 (or even more) binary > files into a single DB file. The binary files are of 100-200 (or a bit > more :-) ) MB each. My requirements are: One thing that just popped up in my mind when reading this thread... The above calculates to 10-40 (or more) GByte. On the other hand, you recently mentioned "good old untouchable legacy software". It may be just me, but "legacy" and "10 GByte files" just don't mix. Did you think about this yet? Does your legacy system use a file storage backend that easily can handle files of this size? Just a thought... guenther -- char *t="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1: (c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}} ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------