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Re: CRAFT data hardware

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.

-- 
Dan Vietor <devo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Unisys


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