Decompress zlib compressed string?

[Trevor DeVore]

Thanks Dar.  I will give your suggestions a try.

Trevor

On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 04:44 PM, Dar Scott wrote:

> On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 12:47 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote:
>
>> I have some data that I will be reading from part of a file that has 
>> been compressed using zlib compression.  Is it possible to decompress 
>> this with Revolution or would I need to create my own external?
>
> From the zlib manual:
> The data format used by the zlib library is described by RFCs (Request 
> for Comments) 1950 to 1952 in the files rfc1950.txt (zlib format), 
> rfc1951.txt (deflate format) and rfc1952.txt (gzip format).
>
> From the TD entry for decompress:
> For technical information about the format used by the compress and 
> decompress functions, see RFC 1952 at 
> <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1952.txt>.
>
> Hmmmm.  Maybe.  Give it a try.
>
> (If you have to use the actually zlib library for any reason, you need 
> to make an external.  In the general case, you can do any kind of data 
> manipulation in Revolution itself if you know the procedure.  These 
> built-in functions might be just what you need or get you close.)
>
> Dar Scott
>
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