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- From: schli@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schlickenrieder)
- Subject: Clipper/MEMO Question
- Message-ID: <SCHLI.92Jul27152536@alaspin.cs.tu-berlin.de>
- Sender: news@cs.tu-berlin.de
- Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 13:25:45 GMT
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- Hi there...
-
- I (yet again) have a problem with the *.DBT files (those files
- where the content of all the MEMO fields of a DB is held).
- Problem is the following:
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- I have a database with two fields in each record: An index
- field for identification purposes, and a memo field with about
- 10000 to 25000 Bytes in it. I expect to have about 100 to 200
- records in it. Now when I change the contents of a memo field
- it seems like the old contents are not removed from the DBT
- file, and thus, the DBT file gets *enormously* huge: With 20
- records in it and exactly 10000 bytes in each memo field the
- DBT file's size is now 7MB (7,000,000 bytes)! Is this
- supposed to be like it is, or am I doing something wrong? Or
- -- even better -- am I missing anything, something like
- "memo-file-pack ()"?!?
-
- Any help is apprechiated...
-
- ...Wolfram
-