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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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