Re: Forms 4.5: problem with the size of the *.fmb files

From: William Kaufman <wkaufman_at_wkaufman.us.oracle.com>
Date: 1995/12/14
Message-ID: <4apl03$mmr_at_inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com>#1/1


In article <30CF77A7.591C_at_gate.net> "Robert C. Nix" <nix_at_gate.net> writes:

] 

] > When I save my forms (version 4.5) the size my of source file (*.fmb)
] > is not always the same, the same file can be 600Kb and if I save if
] > again I could change to 1.2Mb. Did anyone have the same problem ? Is
] > there a solution ?

    *.fmb files are essentially databases; if you modify one enough, the database gets fragmented, with "dead" space between the used data.

] Try to convert it to an .fmt and back and see if you still have the problem

    That should work. Or, if your platform shipped a program named "rospack", run that on the *.fmb file(s), like

        rospack file.fmb newfile.fmb

and (assuming it succeeds) rename newfile.fmb back to the original filename.

    (If rospack wasn't shipped for your platform, bug someone,...)

    The *.fmx files are a different matter, though: they're always exactly as large as they need to be. There's no way to "pack" them, and regenerating the same *.fmx file should always result in the same output.

  • Bill K.

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