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"James Campbell" <James@Virtual-Information.com> wrote:

>Could someone please give me some information about a way to compress a huge
>Access database so that it would still be able to be accessed by visual
>basic 5.0. I am with a growing software company and we are very close to our
>newest release of our program. 

Have you asked your question in the comp.databases.ms-access
newsgroup?  Also try the alt.comp.compression and comp.compression
newsgroups.

Compacting might help.  Making it an MDE won't help much, if at all,
as that only works on the Apps MDB and not the backend Data MDB.

Your best bet might be some kinda compression driver which loads from
your CD.  Similar to DOS 6's DBLSPACE/DRVSPACE. 

Tony
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