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

Author: Landon Rabern

Date: 13:05:01 11/17/00

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On November 17, 2000 at 15:50:49, Landon Rabern wrote:

>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

The tbindex.cpp I got off of Dr. Hyatt's site was not the correct one, I got a
new one that includes tbdecode.c that does the decompression and it works now.

Regards,

Landon W. Rabern



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