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Re: questions about compression...

To: netcdf-hdf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: questions about compression...
From: "Robert E. McGrath" <mcgrath@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:04:35 -0500

Please check the Users Guide (chapter on 'datasets').

http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/UG/


Basically, there is a set/get pair for all the filters. The standard

filters are: Deflate (GZIP), SZIP compression, Shuffle, and FletcherError

Detection Code.

To enable, you do a H5Pset_... on the Dataset Creation Property list,then

create the dataset with H5Dcreate.