problems decompressing files

[Ken Ray]

Chris,

I'm not sure what you're storing that needs to be compressed, but if it
was a string like:

 10011101011111111111111111111111111001

Where there are too many "1"s in a row, couldn't you do something like:

 replace "0" with "0," in tString
 replace "1" with "1," in tString

giving you

 
1,0,0,1,1,1,0,1,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,
0,1,

That you could then compress and decompress? Then to get back your
"original", you could:

 replace "," with "" in tString

to get you back to:

 10011101011111111111111111111111111001

Just a thought,

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Chris Sheffield
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 3:31 PM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: RE: problems decompressing files
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> 
> 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?
> 
> Chris Sheffield
> Software Development
> Read Naturally
> csheffield at readnaturally.com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Chris Sheffield
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 1:55 PM
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> Subject: problems decompressing files
> 
> I'm just wondering if anyone else has ever had any problems 
> decompressing files under OS X.  I've got a wav file that I 
> compressed using the compress command.  Now when I try to 
> decompress it under OS X, the error dialog comes up saying 
> "error during decompression".  The same file decompresses 
> fine under Windows and OS 9.  I can't figure out what's going 
> on.  It was even compressed originally under OS X.  Anyone?
> 
> Chris Sheffield
> Software Development
> Read Naturally
> csheffield at readnaturally.com
> 
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