--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Perhaps I'm missing something, but it seems to me > that it should be > possible to create a Rev-only compression utility > which can handle any number of > files, on any platform that Rev supports. > > Step one: Create a new stack. > Step two: Do a binfile read of whichever file. > Step three: Stick the binary data of that file > into a custom property of > your new stack. > Step four: Repeat 2 and 3 as needed, until there > are no more files to > compress. > Step five: Use gzip to compress the resulting > stack. > > Can anyone think of a reason that this technique > *wouldn't* work? >
On a Mac, you'll also want to incolude the resource fork ; which you can do by means of a "resfile:" read of said file -- other than that, it seems the right tactic. Jan Schenkel. ===== Join us at the European Revolution Conference November 14-16, MALTA. ~ http://TechieTours.com/Rev/ ===== "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (La Rochefoucauld) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
