Re: Appending files

On 22 Sep, 18:12, "vertuas" <vert...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,

I need my application to append some rather large files, (almost 2 gig
each).

I am currently opening each file into tfilestream objects, on then using
copyfrom function to append one stream to the end if another.

As i am appending all of the file, if there a faster was to do the append.
Get windows to chaneg to filesystem pointer, for example, to make 3 files
appear as one?

If there a faster way to copy the stream than tfilestream.copyfrom? This
takes ages to copy all the data over.


Try using the "COPY <SrcFile1> + <SrcFile2> <DestFile>" command in a
DOS window (if you have one) . I would guess that that might be the
fastest to use as a benchmark to compare with your stream method.

Setting a large TStream.Size to start with may help.

Alan Lloyd

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