RE: getting into the url cache

2002-12-12 Thread Monte Goulding
Actually I think you should doubt me most of the time ;-) I've been accused of writing "speculative drivel" on the rev list today ;-P > > On 12/12/02 7:43 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > >It works ;-) > > I never really doubted you for a moment. ;) > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [E

Re: getting into the url cache

2002-12-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/12/02 7:43 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: It works ;-) I never really doubted you for a moment. ;) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list

Re: getting into the url cache

2002-12-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dave Cragg wrote: > I use this technique a lot so don't give up. Monte's point about > using compress on the "binfile" when making the compressed file may > be significant. These are coming over the 'Net, and it seems the "go url" command faithfully transfers binary files as such -- thanks to yo

RE: getting into the url cache

2002-12-12 Thread Monte Goulding
> Kind of cool, if it works. Very cool if you write an app that needs to transfer data from one user's version to another via email and want to save bandwidth. I didn't just come up with the script off the top of my head I cut and pasted from the file management library of my app. It works ;-) __

Re: getting into the url cache

2002-12-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/12/02 7:22 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I appreciate your chiming in here, Monte. I'll double-check my code, but the implications of your presumably functioning code example above are quite a change to my understanding of things: I can use raw data (from a valid stack file, of course) instea

RE: getting into the url cache

2002-12-12 Thread Monte Goulding
> > I appreciate your chiming in here, Monte. I'll double-check my code, but > the implications of your presumably functioning code example > above are quite > a change to my understanding of things: I can use raw data (from a valid > stack file, of course) instead of a stack descriptor with the

Re: getting into the url cache

2002-12-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Monte Goulding wrote: > It may be a problem on the compression side. I use a compressed stack as a > custom file format for one of my apps and I use: > > -- saving > save stack tName as pSave > put compress(url ("binfile:"&pSave)) into url ("binfile:"&pSave) > -- opening > put decompress(url ("bi

Re: getting into the url cache

2002-12-12 Thread Dave Cragg
At 3:47 pm -0800 12/12/02, Richard Gaskin wrote: First: load url "http://whatever.com/whatever.gz"; ##now in cache then later: go stack decompress(url "http://whatever.com/whatever.gz";) ##will take it from the cache I don't think so. Here I get a "not a stack" error, which seems logi

RE: getting into the url cache

2002-12-12 Thread Monte Goulding
> > I don't think so. Here I get a "not a stack" error, which seems logical > once I thought it through. Hi Richard It may be a problem on the compression side. I use a compressed stack as a custom file format for one of my apps and I use: -- saving save stack tName as pSave put compress(url

Re: getting into the url cache

2002-12-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dave Cragg wrote: > At 10:53 am -0800 12/12/02, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> Dave Cragg wrote: >> How can we accss the cache to alter it before using the go url command? >>> >>> go stack decompress(url "http://whatever.com/whatever.gz";) >> >> How can that be used with the load command? > > F

Re: getting into the url cache

2002-12-12 Thread Dave Cragg
At 10:53 am -0800 12/12/02, Richard Gaskin wrote: Dave Cragg wrote: How can we accss the cache to alter it before using the go url command? go stack decompress(url "http://whatever.com/whatever.gz";) How can that be used with the load command? First: load url "http://whatever.com/whatev

Re: getting into the url cache

2002-12-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dave Cragg wrote: >> How can we accss the cache to alter it before using the go url command? > > go stack decompress(url "http://whatever.com/whatever.gz";) How can that be used with the load command? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge 2.1: Publish any d

Re: getting into the url cache

2002-12-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dave Cragg wrote: > At 10:21 am -0800 12/12/02, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> We can download stacks easily using the load command, followed by a go url >> command once the file is cached. >> >> However, if we want to transfer gzipped stacks we need some way to run the >> url cache through the decompr

Re: getting into the url cache

2002-12-12 Thread Dave Cragg
At 10:21 am -0800 12/12/02, Richard Gaskin wrote: We can download stacks easily using the load command, followed by a go url command once the file is cached. However, if we want to transfer gzipped stacks we need some way to run the url cache through the decompress function. How can we accss the

getting into the url cache

2002-12-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
We can download stacks easily using the load command, followed by a go url command once the file is cached. However, if we want to transfer gzipped stacks we need some way to run the url cache through the decompress function. How can we accss the cache to alter it before using the go url command?