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<FONT FACE="Geneva">Hi,<BR>
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One way I share one revo project between 2 platforms (PC and Mac) is by having the shell stack (the stack that opens the real modifiable stack) compress and ftp the stack that gets modified to a server. Then the same shell stack on a different platform downloads the modified stack and does the same thing. The script looks something like this:<BR>
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-- Script in the shell stack<BR>
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on preOpenStack<BR>
get the platform<BR>
if it is "MacOS" then<BR>
put "PowerBookHD/Revolution Projects/someProject.rev" into tLocalFile<BR>
else<BR>
put "C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/Desktop/someProject.rev" into tLocalFile<BR>
end if<BR>
set the cursor to busy<BR>
put URL "ftp://username:password@ftp.ispname.com/www/somefolder/someProject.rev" into tRemoteFile<BR>
put decompress(tRemoteFile) into URL tLocalFile<BR>
toplevel stack tLocalFile<BR>
end preOpenStack<BR>
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--Script in the “Close” button of the modifiable stack that gets uploaded<BR>
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on mouseUp<BR>
get the platform<BR>
if it is "MacOS" then<BR>
put "PowerBookHD/Revolution Projects/someProject.rev" into tLocalFile<BR>
else<BR>
put "C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/Desktop/someProject.rev" into tLocalFile<BR>
end if<BR>
set the cursor to busy<BR>
save stack "someProject.rev"<BR>
put compress(tLocalFile) into URL "ftp://username:password@ftp.ispname.com/www/somefolder/someProject.rev"<BR>
close stack "someProject.rev"<BR>
end mouseUp<BR>
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Now, everything worked fine until I tried it under OS X. Now when I open the shell stack and it tries to download and decompress someProject.rev, I get the following error message:<BR>
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Error description: decompress: string is not compressed data<BR>
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SomeProject.rev does not open. While compressing it and uploading is no problem. I should add that both comression/decompression work fine under W2K. The problem is only under OS X. Anyone have any thoughts?<BR>
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TIA,<BR>
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Tim<BR>
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