OS X Externals

[Frank D. Engel, Jr.]

I need to interact with an additional 3rd party tool for handling  
images in the database.  Since that tool will need the images to be in  
pure binary form in the database, base64 encoding is not an option.

On Nov 2, 2004, at 9:42 AM, K wrote:

>
> As good measure in daling with databases in general I base64 all  
> binary prior to insert.   This way I do not have to concern myself  
> with utilities (or databases I my move to at a later time) supporting  
> binary.  It is a extra step but well worth the effort.
>
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> Any resemblance between the above views and those of my
> employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely
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> Any resemblance between the above and my own views is  
> non-deterministic.
>
>  The question of the existence of views in the absence of anyone to  
> hold
> them
> is left as an exercise for the reader. The question of the existence of
> the reader
>  is left as an exercise for the second god coefficient.
> (A discussion of non-orthogonal, non-integral polytheism is beyond the
> scope of this article.)
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>  --- On Mon 11/01, Dar Scott < dsc at swcp.com > wrote:
> From: Dar Scott [mailto: dsc at swcp.com]
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 12:24:47 -0700
> Subject: Re: OS X Externals
>
> <br>On Nov 1, 2004, at 11:34 AM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:<br><br>>  
> Thank you everyone who looked at this for me, I finally convinced  
> <br>> myself that this is a bug in Rev and filed it in Bugzilla  
> (#2308).<br>><br>> I did manage to build by external under Windows,  
> but have not tested <br>> the faulty routine there yet.  I suspect  
> (from the below report) that <br>> it is a Mac-specific bug, so until  
> Rev gets this fixed, I will just <br>> have to use the slow Transcript  
> version, at least for the Mac.  I will <br>> test under Windows later,  
> and if the external works there, I'll attach <br>> a note to the bug  
> report that it is OS X specific and then use the <br>> external for  
> Windows at least, both when it is fixed.<br><br>I have heard rumors of  
> a method for passing binary data as an arg, but <br>I don't know how  
> it works.<br><br>My external SDK says data is a null terminated  
> string.  That means no <br>binary.  (Without some method to avoid  
> nulls.)<br><br>How are you passing bi
>  nary as an  
> arg?<br><br>Dar<br>****************************************<br>      
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Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net>

$ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual
$ true | cat /usr/manual | grep "John 3:16"
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten  
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have  
everlasting life.
$



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