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Subject: Re: Decompressing EGTB

Author: Landon Rabern

Date: 19:59:56 11/16/00

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On November 16, 2000 at 21:28:43, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 16, 2000 at 19:59:04, Landon Rabern wrote:
>
>>On November 16, 2000 at 18:35:25, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On November 16, 2000 at 17:49:31, Landon Rabern wrote:
>>>
>>>>I am adding EGTB support to my program and I downloaded the tables, but they are
>>>>compressed in a .emd format, what utility do I use to decompress these?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>Landon W. Rabern
>>>
>>>
>>>Don't... just use Eugene's probe code... it decompresses on the fly.
>>
>>I was trying that and for some reason it does not see the files when they are
>>.emd, but if I generate them then it does see them in the directory.  The call
>>to the initTables(or whatever it is called) just returns zero when I try to use
>>the compressed ones.  Is there some variable I need to set to have it use the
>>compressed ones?
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Landon W. Rabern
>
>
>Nothing I can think of, other than to be sure the file names are "correct".
>Are you using the tbgen source files from my ftp site?

I am using the tbindex.cpp from your ftp.  I generated all 3 and 4 man tables
and they work uncompressed like that.

Regards,

Landon W. Rabern



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