On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 13:30, Kevin W. Thomas wrote:
> >> Thanks. GEMPAK doesn't have decompress built in so we would have to at
> >> least decompress and keep about 12 hours or so on disk uncompressed.
> >>
> >
> >I think it'd be great if GEMPAK had the decompress built in. Does IDV
> >handle the compressed files? The problem is the uncompressing does take up
> >a huge amount of disk space, and is extremely CPU intensive, so you're
> >doing all this work on data, that you probably are only going to look at 1%
> >of.
Exactly. Compression works well with LII data. I've seen 12:1
compression which helps in archiving. The bzip2 decompression code is
relatively simple and I've built it in to WXP. Its about 20 lines of
code.
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Dan Vietor <devo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Unisys
