Windows 2000 2 GB file limit

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

William James McEachran propounded (on Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 01:34:03PM -0500):
| On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:35:43PM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
| > 
| > Use extended key files -- key, keyx1, keyx2, and keyx3.
| > 
| 
| The term is new to me. How do extended key files differ from qualifiers?

RTFM:

        Expand Files also lets you switch drives for new records being
        added to a key (and data) file. (You might want to do this
        when your data gets too large for the current filesystem.) If,
        at the "Number of Records to Expand File By" prompt, you type
        the word "switch". filePro will allow you to designate a new
        hard drive (filesystem). From this point on, all records in
        this file will be added to a file called "keyx1" (and datax1)
        in the same hierarchical path as the primary drive. If there
        already is a keyx1, it will add keyx2, etc., up to 8 expansion
        filesystems. This is not a good idea. It is better to move the
        entire key file to another larger drive. This feature is a
        holdover from earlier days when hard drives were very small.

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JP