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

Author: Lex Loep

Date: 00:45:36 11/18/00

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On November 17, 2000 at 16:05:01, Landon Rabern wrote:

>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

I had mine from Dr Hyats site approx 2wks ago and it did include tbdecode.c

Rgds
Lex




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