Method of compression

Post by **turin** » February 22nd, 2005, 11:08 pm

I notice that save files appear to be compressed now - on the whole a good idea. However, they don't have an extension, so I can't figure out what algorithm is used. Is it .zip?

dms · Post by **dms** » February 22nd, 2005, 11:58 pm

I have no idea, but the 'file' command should be able to tell you.

Post by **turin** » February 23rd, 2005, 2:35 am

dms wrote:I have no idea, but the 'file' command should be able to tell you.

Heh heh... not quite.

~$ file .wesnoth/saves/Traitors_replay
.wesnoth/saves/Traitors_replay: data
~$

Post by **Dave** » February 23rd, 2005, 5:10 am

Well, they're only kinda 'compressed': They use binary WML, instead of text WML.

To decompress, invoke Wesnoth like this:

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wesnoth --decompress infile outfile

To turn save compression off, add the following to your preferences file:

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compress_saves=no

David