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> 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. -- Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx P.O. Box 3000 http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ Boulder, CO 80307-3000
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