OT Re: revZIP library...

2022-10-21 Thread David V Glasgow via use-livecode
> On 21 Oct 2022, at 12:38 am, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > wrote: > > The Horse Grimace Pain Scale with Images and Explanations.png "Oh that’s interesting!", I thought, so tracked it down on Researchgate. Should have carried a bad vasectomy experience trigger warning! David G _

Re: revZIP library...

2022-10-20 Thread Sean Cole via use-livecode
iles, and raise > a warning if I get to 2GB > > > On 10/20/2022 12:04 PM, Pi Digital via use-livecode wrote: > > Do you have no success with the revZipDescribeItem() function. This > should give the compressed size directly after compression. > > > > Sean > > >

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2022-10-20 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
on. This should give the compressed size directly after compression. Sean On 20 Oct 2022, at 16:31, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: In addition to the revZIP library, whether building for 32 bit Windows standalone or 64-bit Standalones, still (as of LC 9.6.8) has a 2GB limit on archives

Re: revZIP library...

2022-10-20 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
use-livecode wrote: In addition to the revZIP library, whether building for 32 bit Windows standalone or 64-bit Standalones, still (as of LC 9.6.8) has a 2GB limit on archives it can open and a 2GB limit on what it can save, there appears to be NO mechanism to get the compressed size of an

Re: revZIP library...

2022-10-20 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Do you have no success with the revZipDescribeItem() function. This should give the compressed size directly after compression. Sean > On 20 Oct 2022, at 16:31, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > wrote: > > In addition to the revZIP library, whether building for 32 bit Windows

revZIP library...

2022-10-20 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
In addition to the revZIP library, whether building for 32 bit Windows standalone or 64-bit Standalones, still (as of LC 9.6.8) has a 2GB limit on archives it can open and a 2GB limit on what it can save, there appears to be NO mechanism to get the compressed size of an item (file) in the

Re: RANT (Mild): revZIP library

2022-10-12 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 10/12/2022 2:35 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: On 2022-10-11 20:37, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: We just got bit by a 4+ year old bug (See https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20859) where the revZIP library on macOS can create and read ZIP archives over 2GB, BUT

Re: RANT (Mild): revZIP library

2022-10-11 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2022-10-11 20:37, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: We just got bit by a 4+ year old bug (See https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20859) where the revZIP library on macOS can create and read ZIP archives over 2GB, BUT the Windows library can not. Do you ship your app as a 64-bit

Re: RANT (Mild): revZIP library

2022-10-11 Thread Martin Koob via use-livecode
; >> On 11 Oct 2022, at 20:37, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >> We just got bit by a 4+ year old bug (See >> https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20859) where the revZIP library >> on macOS can create and read ZIP archives over 2GB, BUT

Re: RANT (Mild): revZIP library

2022-10-11 Thread Mark Clark via use-livecode
Have you considered chunking the problem up and using compress v revZip library? I ran into something similar when I wanted to keep memory down for encrypting/decrypting multi-gig log files…got a lot of advice about just using shell—but for the same sorts of reasons as you I wanted to do things

Re: RANT (Mild): revZIP library

2022-10-11 Thread Phil Davis via use-livecode
capable of building the shell script but let us know if not. All the best Sean On 11 Oct 2022, at 20:37, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: We just got bit by a 4+ year old bug (See https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20859) where the revZIP library on macOS can create and read ZI

Re: RANT (Mild): revZIP library

2022-10-11 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
ttps://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20859) where the revZIP library on macOS can create and read ZIP archives over 2GB, BUT the Windows library can not. We distribute our desktop research application as "cross-platform" for macOS and Windows and just had a researcher on

Re: RANT (Mild): revZIP library

2022-10-11 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
not. All the best Sean > On 11 Oct 2022, at 20:37, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > wrote: > > We just got bit by a 4+ year old bug (See > https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20859) where the revZIP library > on macOS can create and read ZIP archives over 2G

RANT (Mild): revZIP library

2022-10-11 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
We just got bit by a 4+ year old bug (See https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20859) where the revZIP library on macOS can create and read ZIP archives over 2GB, BUT the Windows library can not. We distribute our desktop research application as "cross-platform" for macOS a