Deflating Binary Data

[Nonsanity]

Never thee mind... Google eventually pointed me to the correct command.
Something the LiveCode Dictionary failed to do.

decompress()

 ~ Chris Innanen
 ~ Nonsanity


On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Nonsanity <form at nonsanity.com> wrote:

> I've got a binary file I'm parsing in LiveCode, and it contains sections
> that are compressed with the deflate compressor. This is the same format
> revZip works with, except this isn't a group of files, it's just raw byes.
>
> Has anyone worked out a way previously to handle this in a multi-platform
> way? I'm pretty sure I could pipe this data through the shell command - one
> way or another - to have a command line gzip on Macs decompress it for me.
> But I don't know of a way to do this on Windows that doesn't require an
> additional install.
>
> Maybe there's some way to fool revZip into doing it for me? I'm not against
> writing the data out to a temporary file, if that is necessary, though it's
> best to avoid that sort of thing. It's already in memory, so it's best to
> keep it there for the decode.
>
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>  ~ Chris Innanen
>  ~ Nonsanity
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