OS X Externals

K nnoydb at excite.com
Tue Nov 2 09:42:05 EST 2004


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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 --- 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 binary as an arg?<br><br>Dar<br>****************************************<br>     Dar Scott Consulting<br>     http://www.swcp.com/dsc/<br>     Programming Services<br>****************************************<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>use-revolution mailing list<br>use-revolution at lists.runrev.com<br>http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution<br>

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