No, compress returns a binary! series. Which, if printed, is converted to
something readable, but if you do a WRITE, it will write the binary data.
- jim
At 10:04 AM 11/17/99 +0100, you wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 8:31 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [REBOL] (De)Compress function source Re:
>
> > Hey, a great script idea that I've been wanting to do for
> > some time is write the code to parse in and write out standard gzip
> > headers so then REBOL could read and write standard gzip'd files.
> >
> > Next step after that: TAR
>
>Guess why I asked ;-)? I'm currently using a Perl script :-( which handles
>the automatic package generation for the OpenAmulet project and I really
>would like to get rid of it but I need to create ZIP/GZIP/TAR files for
>this. But doesn't compress transform the result into someting readable? I
>can't remember that gziped files are plain text (ASCII) only. Robert
