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Old January 23rd 14, 10:42 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
philo [_3_]
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On 01/23/2014 02:36 PM, wrote:
I suspect somehow this file was not properly terminated (eg ctl-z).
it is 5.5 GB and I'm trying to load it into Access. It responds too quickly
to have tried to read the file and found out it was too big.

I am thinking someway to copy binary and add a ^Z file?

It's been 2 decades since i did something like this and I suspect
whatever worked then won't work with 5.5 GB




I seriously doubt you were working with 5.5GB files 20 years ago

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