[mso] Re: Word 2000 Filesize limit?
- From: "Robert Carneal" <carnealre@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:21:26 -0600
-Emphasis-
you need to go back to the guy and get the stuff in a more reasonable
format.
-End-
That was my first plan. He passed. I wish I could have done that- I have
questions about it. Even concatenating files (whether in DOS or Word) was an
miraculous achievement, but I doubt that is how it was done. I think it was
done another way. His son knew of my genealogical interest and allowed me to
pick out what I was interested in. It was his son that told me his dad kept
saying he "he did everyone one at a time, and just put it together by
putting one below the main file." That sounds like concatenation to me, but
I would love to know how it was done.
Oh well, I finally got it open. I am happy. His son wants a paper copy
(Wow!!!), and I warned him that even at a small print of 108 lines per page,
1,852,387 records would work out to about 17, 152 pages. As he is paying for
toner and paper, I am doing it for him.
Geesh, meanwhile, I broke it up into eight files to make it smaller. And
then I made twenty copies on DVD-R so I won't lose it. <g>
Thank you everyone. I guess this thread can end now. <g>
Robert
-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
David Smart
Sent: 2006-11-30 03:25
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: Word 2000 Filesize limit?
If you mean that he appended the information inside Word and saved it as a
single huge Word file, then it's most unlikely that it was done that way.
Whatever version of Word that ran with DOS 6 (Windows 3.1 presumably) - Word
2.0 springs to mind but I'm not confident - there is no way it would have
handled a file this big.
If you mean that he concatenated files using DOS, then there is no way that
any version of Word would handle it. You can't concatenate Word files in
that way.
Is it even Word, or just a file with *.doc extension?
Doesn't sound very hopeful - you need to go back to the guy and get the
stuff in a more reasonable format.
BTW I don't think that Word 2000 will even read files from the version of
Word that ran on DOS 6. It's just too old. There might be third-party
converters that would read the old format.
Regards, Dave S
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Carneal" <carnealre@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 5:55 PM
Subject: [mso] Re: Word 2000 Filesize limit?
>I am guessing based on the guy's computer I saw. He had a computer using
>DOS
> 6.0, and I think he built many, many, many smaller files and just appended
> them one right after the other.
> I see other answers to my question- have not read them all yet.
> Robert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
> Of
> David Smart
> Sent: 2006-11-28 05:20
> To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [mso] Re: Word 2000 Filesize limit?
>
> Word 2000 is pretty old these days.
>
> How was the file created? If it was created in Word, then check on what
> version of Word it was. The version that wrote it should presumably be
> able
> to read it.
>
> MS has been steadily increasing limits on files, etc, with each new
> release.
>
> Regards, Dave S
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Carneal" <carnealre@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 4:09 PM
> Subject: [mso] Word 2000 Filesize limit?
>
>
>> Hello everyone-
>>
>> Is there anyway at all to get around or turn off the limit to a file size
>> Word 2000 can open? I have a genealogy file of roughly *800 MB*, and it
>> starts off as if it is going to open it. A few real minutes later (About
>> four minutes), it will display the top portion of the file briefly, but
>> immediately proceeds to give me an error.
>>
>> I am using a computer with 3.8G of memory, and AMD Athlon XP processor
>> (1.66G), and 100 G hard drive, 72G free. I should have the room.
>>
>> Ok, according my book, 32MB is the limitation for Word to open a file.
>> Ug.
>> I
>> could have sworn I saw people opening bigger files. Any help would be
>> appreciated. Thanks.
>>
>> Robert
>
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