In our previous episode, Juha Manninen said: > Maybe we could just add our own metadata wrapper instead of gzip or a > zlib wrapper. > Well, it does not sound like a clever thing to do. > > We have used tpabbrevia but it has a bug with very big files (like 6 > GB). Its code is not easy to understand and I would rather not start > searching the bug. > > Marco, what was the FPC counterpart for TZCompressionStream in your > Delphi-compatible code? FPC does not have TZCompressionStream either.
Afaik I use the zstream ones. I do know from zipfile component that there are two forms of inflate/deflate (which is also zlib), one with a header before, and one with a header appended (the streaming variant) _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal