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are you compressing a file that's already compressed? For example a self extracting executable.

Does a compression level of 9 give better results?

You may also want to you "if" staments to test the success of the packing.

Code updated for 5.20+. Built-in console command now feature this as well.

For the benefit of Ajm ( he's threating to use languages other than purebasic if the console commands don't improve - gasp!) here's a quick example I created by expanding wichtel's scrolling console tip into procedures ...

Hi Rings,

Can you check FastFileMD5 works with read only files now also please.

The version I have returns the correct value but also "beeps" every time a read only file is encountered.

FastfileCRC32 had a similar problem until you fixed it (as you state in this thread).

There might be a later ...

I think you need an "End" after the "Until" or your error routine is going to run every time you run your program

Regards

Insomniac

I have also researched this through the forum in the past as I wanted to make a multi-threaded file copier.

From what I could tell global variables were considered thread safe providing they were not strings, see code example by Francois Weil here:

http://forums.purebasic.com/english/viewtopic ...

did you forget to search

Rings published an example here

viewtopic.php?t=6102

Regards

Insomniac