<font face='Verdana'>I need to include a complete file, ie:text bulletin, to read and or download but its too big to include in the data base is there anyway to reference it in the database and include it in a recordset? How can I possibly make this work? or what are the principles to how it could work so I know why I am not able to make it work...hmmm?</font id='Verdana'>

the easiest way to work with big files dynamically, is to throw the file on the server, and just store the URL in the database.

Then that way, you can make a dynamic link list or something of that nature, and just use the URL to send the user to the file <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

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<font face='Trebuchet MS'>By throwing them on the server do you mean with the other pages of my website or can they be contained in subfolders? do they also need to be .htm files?</font id='Trebuchet MS'>

They can go wherever you like in your site structure, just so long as you give the correct URL for them in the database. In this case, I would say relative paths are probably a bad idea, so give the full URL.

They shouldn't need to be in HTML format. If you rename a txt file to html and put:
<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>&lt;PRE&gt;
ALLYOURTEXTHERE
&lt;/PRE&gt;
</font id=code></pre id=code>
, IE seems to open it without complaint. If you want to use more exotic formats like PDF, then obviously your user will need the browser plugin.