Method Description

Binary.compress() - Available since version 1.3.28

zlib "deflate" current contents of the Binary object.

Syntax

void = Binary.compress()

Parameters

The 'Binary.compress' method takes no parameters

Results

The 'Binary.compress' method returns no useful information.

Remarks

This method takes the contents of the object and compresses it using a zlib wrapper documented in RFC 1950, wrapped around a deflate stream, which is itself documented in RFC 1951.

Binary.unCompress() can be used to reverse this process.