Blocks

[MisterX]

Hi everyone,

> > From: "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>

> > > 
> > > go decompress(url 
> ("http://www.hyperactivesw.com/revnet/blocks.mc.gz"))
> > > 

I was really surprised by the cool combo of commands to run
web stacks! That's for sure.

But I was really surprised that using the compress 
function to prepare stacks for the web just didn't work.

Doing some tests, I found out that loading using  the url 
function is part of the problem. 

- Compress url filex into url filey -- assume the extensions, etc...
and decompress url filey into filez ...
will return different files (filex <> filez)

with some experimentation I found out that the url loading
is the culprit: it is not the same a "open file filex for binary reading".
but rather the default (not binary meaning there's some translation of 
linefeeds in the process).

When I used the binary open/read/close file, the x and z files where 
the same size and even the the same md5digest result!

 put md5digest(url ("file:"&fld "compress")) into a
 put md5digest(url ("file:"&fld "decompress")) into b

BUT the file still couldn't be opened...
 
get binarydecode("H*",md5digest(url ("file:"&fld "compress")),a)
get binarydecode("H*",md5digest(url ("file:"&fld "decompress")),b) 

comparing again a and b now says that the file is not OK!

Using the binary open/read/close file still didn't help...

Can anyone enlighten me? Where is the problem???

Cheers
Xavier