problems decompressing files

[Chris Sheffield]

I have noticed any size limitations.  I had one test file that was only 6
bytes and it compressed/decompressed fine.  One thing I did notice, however,
is that when a file is this small, the compressed file actually ends up
being larger.  I think in this case it was about 33 bytes.  Not sure what
that means.

Chris Sheffield
Software Development
Read Naturally
csheffield at readnaturally.com


-----Original Message-----
From: use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com
[mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Mark Brownell
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 2:58 PM
To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
Subject: Re: problems decompressing files


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

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