Zlib decompression - Any ideas?

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Mon Dec 29 18:37:00 EST 2008


On 12/29/08 3:04 PM, "Mark Smith" <lists at futilism.com> wrote:

> I wonder if these files are simply raw compressed data with no
> headers or enclosing 'container'.
> 
> I'm assuming you've tried just reading in the binary data and using
> 'decompress' in revolution - the docs for 'compress/decompress' say
> it's based on zlib compression.

Yes, I get an error that it's "not compressed data". My understanding was
that the compress/decompress in Rev is gzip format, which is a wrapper
around zlib-compressed data. But beyond that, I have no idea...

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/





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