Author: Lex Loep
Date: 01:34:44 11/19/00
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On November 18, 2000 at 09:17:15, Brian Richardson wrote: >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. I used the files from tbgen.zip , all dated 9/2/99 Lex
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