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Re: Gzip / compression handling? [message #32259 is a reply to message #32256]

Mon, 23 September 2002 13:04

Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996

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Doug Rowland <rowland@fields.space.umn.edu> writes:

> Does anyone know how to handle compressed files in IDL?
> Is the /COMPRESS keyword platform-independent?
>
> 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.

Hi Doug--

I've wanted this functionality from IDL too, but I do not believe the
compression routines are available within IDL, nor from the SOCKET
routine.

Yours,
Craig

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		Re: Gzip / compression handling? By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 23 September 2002 16:51
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		Re: Gzip / compression handling? By: Ken Mankoff on Mon, 23 September 2002 15:46
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