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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