Thanks Greg,
I may try this after I return from my trip to London.
Maybe we should also expand on this detail in the developers’ wiki ?
David
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On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 17:59, Greg Hellings
<[greg.helli...@gmail.com](mailto:On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 17:59, Greg Hellings
<<a href=)> wrote:
> One could always switch to a zVerse4 driver instead of zVerse if they wish to
> have larger block sizes. zVerse is limited to a 65,535 byte cap per block, as
> it uses a 16 bit size value for the offset in the data file. zText4 uses a
> 32-bit value, and can correspondingly capture a 4 Gigabyte minus one block
> size. Most of our mpdule types have this split option available.
>
> That would probably be a better solution than modifying block setting. As
> mentioned, Chapter is the "best" block to use because that is what most apps
> use as a unit of display. But if the release script hard codes Book, then the
> other solution is to change the driver in use.
>
> --Greg
>
> On Mon, May 5, 2025, 11:45 AM David Haslam < dfh...@protonmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So if an OSIS file were so unusual as to cause the module to give
>> decompression buffer issues, as things stand at present, you would not have
>> a route to fix things?
>>
>> Not even if the submitted .conf file has BlockType=CHAPTER specified as the
>> way to prevent this issue ?
>>
>> David
>>
>> On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 17:39, domcox <
>> [domini...@corbex.org](mailto:On+Mon,+May+5,+2025+at+17:39,+domcox+%3C%3Ca+href=)>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> David Haslam < dfh...@protonmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> How does Dom’s module release script determine the right
>>>> BlockType for a module?
>>>
>>> BlockType is set with only one value: BlockType=book.
>>>
>>> see:
>>> https://www.crosswire.org/svn/sword-tools/trunk/modules/conf/confmaker.py
>>> (line=431)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dom
>>
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