problems decompressing files

[Mark Brownell]

On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 01:31  PM, Chris Sheffield wrote:

> I think I found the answer to my own question.  Apparently there's a 
> bug
> under OS X where if too many of the same character in a row are 
> compressed,
> you can't decompress the file (bug #392 in Bugzilla).  This is not a 
> good
> bug.  I'm hoping it'll be fixed in an update very soon.  My 
> development kind
> of depends on it.  Anyone found a work around?

Hi Chris,

This could explain my problem trying to use compress/decompress with my 
blowfish algorithm. I was able to use base64(encode/decode) with no 
troubles. Version Rev 2.0.1; Mac 10.2.4

I'll test by encapsulating smaller parts to be compressed / 
decompressed before and after encrypt/decrypt. Maybe this will allow it 
to work? If I could compress before encrypt/decrypt then that could 
speed things up for larger files. Have you noticed a size limitation 
that still works?

Mark