On 13/09/2013 15:38, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Reinier Olislagers said: >> However, I'm sure there must be quicker ways (e.g. less newbie code; >> using OS functions to quickly create empty memor, or alternatively >> create a sparse file and zip the file instead of the stream). > > Do not create the data, but generate it in an overriden tstream read() call? > > If you can define a function that can generate "count" bytes of data at > position n (in this case the function is constant), then you don't have to > write it out. > > Ken in mind that TStream is an abstraction, not necessarily a block of > (RAM or disk) memory.
Mmm, yes, that sounds very smart, thanks! _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
