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compressing a line of text #86929 15/06/04 03:37 AM
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 37 B BIGeMpTy OP Ameglian cow
OP BIGeMpTy Ameglian cow B Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 37	Is there a way to take a line of text and compress it to make a message shorter? I saw the $compress identifier but that seems to deal with binvars, so then my question would become how do I convert a text string to a binary variable and back again? -eMpTy http://www.omenscripts.org

Re: compressing a line of text #86930 15/06/04 10:23 AM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,523 Q qwerty Hoopy frood
qwerty Hoopy frood Q Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,523	Text to binvar: /bset -t &var 1 text goes here Binvar to text: $bvar(&var,1-).text /help /bset for more on binary variables. /.timerQ 1 0 echo /.timerQ 1 0 $timer(Q).com

Re: compressing a line of text #86931 15/06/04 02:16 PM
Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 282 S saragani Fjord artisan
saragani Fjord artisan S Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 282	I way always wandering what kind of compression is it... It is not a standard zip compression. Is it Gzip by any chance? (So it might be used while talking so servers which support PHP).

Re: compressing a line of text #86932 15/06/04 03:37 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,523 Q qwerty Hoopy frood
qwerty Hoopy frood Q Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,523	/help acknowledgements: Zlib support is based on the work of Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler. /.timerQ 1 0 echo /.timerQ 1 0 $timer(Q).com

Re: compressing a line of text #86933 15/06/04 09:06 PM
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 37 B BIGeMpTy OP Ameglian cow
OP BIGeMpTy Ameglian cow B Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 37	I read the help file before I posted and couldn't get anything running, I used your example and had the same problem. Below is precisely what I typed into the command line of my status window and the results I got. Please take a second and tell me how I"m screwing this up. Code: /bset -t &binvar 1 yo you yo //echo -s $bvar(&binvar,1-).text * Invalid parameters: $bvar -eMpTy http://www.omenscripts.org

Re: compressing a line of text #86934 15/06/04 10:21 PM
Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 2,019 Leuven, Belgium FiberOPtics Hoopy frood
FiberOPtics Hoopy frood Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 2,019 Leuven, Belgium	Hi, in the help file the following is stated: Notes on &binvar binary variables Binary variables have no size limit, and are limited only by memory, can only be accessed by commands /bread and /bwrite, so they can't be printed or assigned or edited, and are automatically destroyed when a script finishes processing. When you run those commands seperatly then the $bvar won't return anything, because it can be seen as "different scripts" Try this: Code: //bset -t &binvar 1 yo you yo \| echo -s $bvar(&binvar,1-).text Greets Gone.

Re: compressing a line of text #86935 16/06/04 02:42 AM
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 37 B BIGeMpTy OP Ameglian cow
OP BIGeMpTy Ameglian cow B Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 37	Yeah as it turns out the variable isn't actually stored...that's why I was having problems...silly me... -eMpTy http://www.omenscripts.org

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