> Organization: SSESCO
> Keywords: 199410132201.AA07965
Brian Lincoln asks:
> I went back to read the netCDF manual recently and noticed the following:
>
> "...we do plan to eventually add a form of transparent data packing on
> write and unpacking on read whenever the reserved attributes _Nbits,
> _Scale, _Offset are defined..." pg 154 of 2.3 manual under "Are there
> plans to add... data compression"
>
> Is this 'plan' (automatic packing) still in the dream stages or is there
> a planned release with this feature in the works?
Transparent packing is still on a list of desirable enhancements to netCDF,
but there is no planned release date yet. We hope to get back to working on
netCDF later this year, aiming toward a new release early next year.
If someone else wants to try implementing this, we noticed that preserving
missing values when packing and unpacking will require some care.
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