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Re: Gzip / compression handling? [message #32256 is a reply to message #32255]

Mon, 23 September 2002 15:46

Ken Mankoff
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> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 19:53:06 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Doug Rowland <rowland@fields.space.umn.edu>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave
> Subject: Gzip / compression handling?
>
> Does anyone know how to handle compressed files in IDL? Is the
> /COMPRESS keyword platform-independent?

I believe its platform independant.

> Maybe more importantly, I want to take a data stream over a network
> that is compressed with gzip, and uncompress it in memory. Any easy
> way of doing this? I would like to avoid writing the stream to disk
> and then reading it back in using the /COMPRESS keyword to OPENR, as
> that might introduce lots of overhead.

If you are using a unix system, there might be a way to pipe (|) your
lun/stream through the gzip/gunzip command. Are you using unix?

-k.

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