compress: unexpected end of file on Mac

[giansuana]

Hi,
if I use the command 'compress' in a LC script to save a zipped file onto my Mac's disk (OSX Lion), I afterwards get an error trying to uncompress this file.
Terminal is telling me: 'gzip: Blah.gz: unexpected end of file'.
If I upload the same zipped file to a ftp server in my LC script and then do a download with my Mac's ftp client, uncompressing works great!

What's different between saving directly to hard drive and do the loop over a ftp server ? Or other question: how can I prevent this 'unexpected end of file' ? For saving I use the following commands in my script:

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put tFile into the URL("file:Blah.gz") //saving on disk
put tFile into URL "ftp://ftp.xyz.com/Blah.gz" //saving on ftp

Best regards,
Gian.

[Klaus]

Hi Gian,

you need to save this as BINFILE on disk!
...
put tFile into the URL("BINFILE:Blah.gz") //saving on disk
...


Best

Klaus

[bn]

Hi Gian,

I tried with "binfile:" instead of "file:" as this is binary data and using "file:" there is a conversion of line endings according to the platform

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on mouseUp
   put "/Users/userName/Desktop/44px-G-clef.svg.png" into tFile
   put tFile & ".gz" into tExportFile
   put compress (url ("binfile:" & tFile)) into url ("binfile:" & tExportFile)
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this produced a functional compressed file of the origingal file on MacOSX 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard)

could you try this?

Why it works with the ftp-ed version I have no idea.
Edit: probably there is no conversion of line endings when saving to ftp url, would not make sense in this context.

Kind regards

Bernd

Edit: Hi Klaus

[giansuana]

Hi all,
'binfile' instead of 'file' works! Thank you al lot for your help!

Best regards,
Gian.