Decompression question

[Kevin Miller]

On 31/1/02 1:43 pm, Tim <tim11 at bellatlantic.net> wrote:

> Well, I've tried it, but no go. If I use the above script I get a "value"
> error in the script editor.
> 
> If I try:
> 
> put decompress(url ("binfile:" & tUrl)) into tStackData
> 
> I get the familiar message decompress: string is not compressed data.
> 
> So, either way it doesn't work. Very confusing.

This definitely does work.  The data you are trying to decompress must not
be compressed data.  Is it possible that your script is either unable to
download the file, or the file was originally not saved using the "binfile"
syntax but converted to text?

Kevin

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