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Subject: Re: Older tbindex.cpp version lacking .emd support ? Re: Decompressing EGTB

Author: Landon Rabern

Date: 12:50:49 11/17/00

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On November 17, 2000 at 14:16:51, Lex Loep wrote:

>On November 17, 2000 at 12:52:23, Brian Richardson 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?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>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?
>>
>>Bob, I may be mistaken, but the tbindex.cpp file on your site is old--there is
>>no .emd string in it.  I had to find another version with the .emd support.
>
>It's the correct version. You have to #define NEW
>It took me only a couple of hours to get it to work
>with EMD files. The probe.txt contains a good description.
>
>Lex

I did #define NEW, it doesn't work



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