Re: cross-platform compress & decompress

[Mark Brownell]

On Monday, December 1, 2003, at 05:01  PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

There may be something else in the mix:  RevNet has a lot of gzipped 
files
from both platforms and this has not been reported as a problem there.
I'm using this on a Mac X:
    put "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890<>" into tankX
    ask file "Save:" with "Untitled.txt"
    put compress(tankX) into URL ("binfile:" & it & ".gz")
I get this:
ÃKLJNIMKÅÂÃÂÅâÃÃ/(,*.)-+ÃÂÂ2426153ââ4âÂdÂÃÃ&
It will be fun to compare what comes through the list as ascii chars 
for the result...

So I put this file on-line zipped and...

Wouldn't you know it, it works fine!

I used this on the Windows machine:

answer file "this"
put decompress(URL ("binfile:" & it )) into zap
put zap -- returns "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890<>"
OK I've discovered a bug with me. I zipped me...

It turns out I was sending header data in the first line of the 
compressed data. Once I dropped that it worked fine.

Thanks to all,

Mark

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