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bzip2 Compression
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 7:02 pm
by lohill
Is there a LiveCode function or command that will compress a string using bzip2 compression that can be used to compress a URL.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
Regards, Larry
Re: bzip2 Compression
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 7:05 pm
by Klaus
Hi Larry,
LC only provides the -> compress() function which uses the "zlib compression library".
See also:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1952
Best
Klaus
Re: bzip2 Compression
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 7:10 pm
by lohill
Thanks Klaus, I'll explore that to see it it will do what I want.
Larry