Decompress cross platform

[J. Landman Gay]

On 10/3/03 3:20 PM, Dar Scott wrote:

> 
> On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 01:14 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> 
>> I don't want to maintain separate stacks for each platform. Any idea 
>> how to get around this problem? I thought compression was supposed to 
>> work the same way on all plaforms.
> 
> 
> Me, too.
> 
> There is a decompression bug for OS X & Revolution 2.1, but this does 
> not seem to be it.  Or is it?  That bug is fixed and the fix will be in 
> an upcoming release.
> 
> Revolution compression uses a gzip style compression that is the same as 
> that (the best I can tell) in RFC1952.  The decompression does not check 
> the CRC, so it can't be compliant.  In my opinion, it should _not_ check 
> the CRC in decompression.  I would expect this to work across 
> platforms.  IIRC, the OS X bug is a type bug and those might make 
> differences across platforms.
> 
> Do you have a small example that does not work the same across platforms.

You can use anything. Just create a field and put any text into it. Then 
do this:

  put compress(fld x) into fld x

Save the stack and transfer it to the other platform. Then do:

  put decompress(fld x) into fld x

It won't work for me. In re: your other note, there are no nulls and the 
lines are not long; it is just plain ascii. So I don't think the problem 
is with the source text, especially since I can reproduce the problem no 
matter what I put in the field.

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