Author: Brian Richardson
Date: 06:17:15 11/18/00
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On November 18, 2000 at 03:45:36, Lex Loep wrote: >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 I just checked both the TB directory and the Crafty source and downloaded both. Crafty only seems to use tbdecode.h, and the tbindex.cpp (from 12/13/98) in the TB directory (in tbgen.zip) does not include the "emd" string and does not support the newer compressed format.
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