on 6/28/02 2:44 PM, Seth Willits at seth at freaksw dot com wrote:
> On 6/28/02 11:31 AM, the NSA intercepted the following message from "Drew
> Findley" <drew at drewfindley dot com>:
>
>> I am trying to build an app that will store JPEGs in a RealDatabase but
>> I cannont get the example on the Real site to work in Win32 (NT4 or
>> Win95 with Quicktime 5 installed.)
>
> It might be a problem with the database itself. I think I heard something a
> little while ago that the databases aren't compatible across platforms
> (which I certainly haven't seen in the documentation).
>
> There is a project similar to RS's on my site. Download and compile it for
> Windows then try running that. My example creates the database so if that's
> the problem it'll be easy to know.
>
> It's called Cross Platform Pictures in a REAL Databse.
>
The databases are compatible cross-platform but there is a bug in 4.0.2 with
long varbinary columns in Win32 that was fixed in 4.5. Although I haven't
tried it, my guess is that different graphics columns use the same code and
have the same issue.
Chris
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