Opening a zipped file in RunRev?

[Klaus Major]

Hi Jim,

> ...
> Brian,
>
> Thank you for this. I was successful with: put compress(field 1) into 
> url "file:xxx"
>
> But I was not able to retrieve the compressed data from the file xxx, 
> that is, put decompress(url "file:xxx") into field 1, produced a 
> "string is not compressed data" error.
>
> While I was at least able to compress field data, I was not able to 
> compress a stack. As you may have seen, Chipp Walters says this is not 
> possible to zip or unzip a stack. (I assume he also means that you 
> cannot compress a stack.)  If you try, you get an error: "Source is 
> not a container." I ran across something to this effect in the Docs 
> yesterday, but I can't relocate it today.
>
> But I am still puzzled as to how you decompress a stored file. I can 
> compress a field but not decompress the file--something like an empty 
> can of coke.
>
> Jim

Have you tried "binfile:"?

put compress(field 1) into url "binfile:xxx"
put decompress(url "binfile:xxx") into field 1

Works here for me...


Regards

Klaus Major
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