On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 08:04:07AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
John Darrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It seems that spss formats a 2551 byte string as 10 consecutive
> 255-byte strings followed by a 103 byte string with the last 102 bytes
> empty.
> Or in general a N byte string (where N > 255) is formated as
> (N div 252) consecutive 255 byte strings followed by a 8xsup(N - (N div
> 252)x255/8) byte string (God knows why!).
> When reading we just have to assume that there'll be "a number" of 255
> byte strings, followed by a string <= 255 bytes in length.
That is truly bizarre. I will have to do some thinking about why
it would do anything so zany.
What do you mean by "xsup"?Sorry. 8 x sup(...) means 8 multiplied by the supremum of ... One complication of reworking, is that sfm_open_reader will have to modify the fv variable of all the very long strings. I don't think that's going to cause any problems, but I'm not sure ... J' -- PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://pgp.mit.edu or any PGP keyserver for public key.
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