[AccessD] A Question of Timing

I just checked with project Gutenberg and it is 5 Meg text with all 
plays and sonnets
2 Meg zipped.

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/100

I was just guesstimating as I have the text copies of the plays in XML 
format
which are around 250K per play, easier to search in this format and good 
xml test files.

Heenan, Lambert wrote:

>"All of Shakespeare's plays requires less than 250K ANSI text or 0.5 meg"
>
>I don't think so. Assuming an average of 6 letters per word (quite a low
>average) that would be about 42,000 words. That's just a little more than
>'Hamlet' alone, never mind the whole of Willie's output.  
>
>There are 37 plays and the 5 longest and 5 shortest add up to about 240,000
>*words*. See http://www.shaksper.net/archives/1994/0714.html
>
>I think you meant something more like 250 Meg.
>
>Even so, I doubt if all the labels on all the controls of an Access app.
>come to any significant total amount of text (these days, considering how
>much memory is standard).
>
>Lambert
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of MartyConnelly
>Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 4:38 PM
>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>Subject: Re: [AccessD] A Question of Timing
>
>
>Actually there might not be that much of a memory requirement for a 
>collection
>All of Shakespeare's plays requires less than 250K ANSI text or 0.5 meg 
>Unicode
>He would at most require a couple of hundred K storage. Complex graphic
>forms alone might require 50K storage. Spare no expense. Throw the bird
>another seed.
>
>  
>

-- 
Marty Connelly
Victoria, B.C.
Canada