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Subject: Re: Decompressing EGTB

Author: Carlos del Cacho

Date: 01:55:22 11/17/00

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On November 16, 2000 at 22:59:56, Landon Rabern wrote:

>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?

Okay, I'm not sure but If I remember well you have to define a constant to use
the new format. I had the same problem... it didn't find any of the tables until
I did this.

Good luck with Betsy!

Carlos

>>>
>>>
>>>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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