Re: Looking for a solution building in oracle 8.16 could use ideas/solutions

Yeah i kinda know the only real solution is threw a com object which is not in the budget with that in mind is there a way to deliver multiple files to the end user as one zip file?

the chances of a user wanting more then 40 slides is slim to none I was thinking of maybe invoking a command line operation (like in unix) to tar/zip the files and then deliver the zip to the user.

pkzip? that runs command line...

I figure if he is going to make a powerpoint presentation on his side he would arrange the slides in any fashion he sees fit. So i dont think it would be a big deal if he recieves one zip file with multiple ppt files in it.

then comes to mind an idea of giving the end user a link after he downloads and extracts the zip file that would start powerpoint and automaticly join the files together.

something like c:/program files/office/powerpoint.exe -i 1.ppt 2.ppt etc etc
this would load powerpoint and join the files on the fly....

Any sugestions????

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:19:02 -0000, "Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote:

>I think the answer is 'with extreme difficulty if at all'.
>
>What springs to mind to me is some sort of middletier app (vb com component)
>that gets passed the query parameters - sends themn to the db and recieves
>the 'component' slides from the db and assembles them into a single
>presentation by automating powerpoint. the result of this operation is them
>passed back to the end-user.
>
>Difficulties I could see with this.
>
>scalability. not sure how well you could code this logic in a scalable
>fashion.
>end-users. what happens when the user decides he wants 782 of your thousand
>slides in a presentation and is sitting at the end of a modem connection.
>
>In addition I think the decision on where to store the slides depends upon
>how many of them you are likely to be holding. storing 1000 in the db may
>not be that unreasonable but (in my opinion) after a certain point file
>stores become better at storing files than databases. with intermedia of
>course you can index the external files just as easily as you could if they
>were in blobs.
Received on Fri Mar 01 2002 - 14:47:41 CST