You can use zlib for this. We do a similar thing on records of about 2000 bytes, and get about 15:1 compression. For short strings you won't find it much use though (a string of about 16 chars rarely ends up smaller after compression.)
http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ Alan "R�gis Daniel de Oliveira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hy all! > > Does anybody know a library that i can use to compress/decompress strings in > PalmOS? > > My server app (developed using VB - so, the lib should have a dll that will > be used to compress the string on the server and, then, send it to the palm) > will need to compress the string, send it to the palm and palm should > decompress it. > > Thanks any information. > > R�gis Daniel de Oliveira > > > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
