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Re: How to decompress file
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Re: How to decompress file


  • Subject: Re: How to decompress file
  • From: David Chan <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:25:38 +0800

Thanks guys for the suggestion. I have now managed to use zlib with
NSData without problem.

Regards

On 1/23/06, John C. Randolph <email@hidden> wrote:
> There are several implementations of NSData/NSMutableData categories
> for zlib compression around on the net.
>
> -jcr
>
>
> On Jan 23, 2006, at 12:00 AM, David Chan wrote:
>
> > Yup the previous application was using Power Plant X. The
> > DecompressionStream was using zlib to decompress the file. I wanted to
> > use NSData instead of datafork for my cocoa application but I couldn't
> > exactly find a way of using zlib to decompress NSData.
> >
> > On 1/20/06, Uli Kusterer <email@hidden> wrote:
> >> Am 19.01.2006 um 08:31 schrieb David Chan:
> >>> I am currently given task to rewrite a carbon project (c++) using
> >>> cocoa (obj-c)
> >>
> >>   Are you using any framework for some of your work?
> >>
> >>> The legacy application I am working with is used to read a special
> >>> type of compressed file. At the moment the carbon applicaiton use
> >>> datafork to read the data and CDecompressionStream to decompress the
> >>> data.
> >>
> >>   Is CDecompressionStream one of your classes? It's not Carbon or
> >> Classic Mac Toolbox. It sounds more like a PowerPlant class. Is the
> >> original using Metrowerks' PowerPlant? PowerPlant X?
> >>
> >>> How do you do that in cocoa? How do you decompress an NSData of a
> >>> compressed file?
> >>
> >>   You can just get the NSData's -bytes accessor to get a pointer to
> >> the raw data. Then build an uncompressed version into an
> >> NSMutableData.
> >>
> >>   You can also directly work with the files in Cocoa (see
> >> NSFileHandle), but the compression code you have to provide yourself.
> >> Shouldn't be hard to port that over, though.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> -- M. Uli Kusterer
> >> http://www.zathras.de
> >>
> >>
> >>
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 >How to decompress file (From: David Chan <email@hidden>)
 >Re: How to decompress file (From: Uli Kusterer <email@hidden>)
 >Re: How to decompress file (From: David Chan <email@hidden>)
 >Re: How to decompress file (From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>)

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