Re: string.dump's result.

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From: "Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo" <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 1:29 AM
To: "Lua list" <lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: string.dump's result.

> The length is given as an int before the actual string. You need to
> know the endianess replace this correctly. But the above solution is
> much cleaner.

Thank you for the tips and information. I actually like the second way, 
because
I am using lua and string.dump the script, and in turn I compress the script 
(it's for
a system I'm using in my Autoplay Media Studio plugins.)

However, I have found the 12 bytes that specify information regarding the 
compressed
file, like the lua version, endiannes etc. However first I guessed the 
length of the path
was a dword, thanks for this new info, now I can do this right!

I have managed to compress a 250k lua file, to a 35k compressed file. A 
procedure
in my plugin then decompressed the data and loads it using loadbuffer. It 
increases
a bit speed in loading the luafile, and reduced the filesize of my plugin.

Bas.