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[REBOL] Re: Compress vs gzip/zlib

From: oliva:david:seznam:cz at: 26-Jun-2002 23:35

Hello jose, Tuesday, June 25, 2002, 12:42:35 AM, you wrote: j> I´ve compressed a text file first with REBOL's j> compress j> write/binary %file.comp compress read/binary %file j> and then with the gzip utility and found out that the j> files only differ by a few bytes. j> If I look at the binary stream it looks like that j> except for a few bytes at the beginning the rest is j> the same. j> Can anybody shed some light on this ? It would be j> useful to have compatibility with gzip j> Thanks j> Jose great... why I never tried this test... I was using zlib function from PHP in my Rebol/Flash dialect but the Rebol compress function IS gzip compression...
>> print to-string zlib/decompress compress "gzip-test"
gzip-test there are just 4 bytes on the end that means length of the string (I think that may be ignored):
>> print to-string zlib/decompress head remove/part tail compress "gzip-test" -4
gzip-test Rebol'sdecompress is working as well:
>> decompress zlib/compress "gzip-test"
== "gzip-test" I really don't know why RT didn't said that sooner... when I was asking them in the feedback some time ago why there is no gzip compression when Rebol can save PNG files, there was no reply from them:-( never mind... now I can be independent on the PHP... good work Jose