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Re: reading data-files from archive? [message #56227 is a reply to message #56213]

Sat, 13 October 2007 02:58

pook41
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Registered: January 2007

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On Oct 12, 7:03 pm, Sven Utcke <utcke+n...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a complete and utter newbie to IDL, so please bear with me:
>
> is IDL capable of reading data out of archive-files? What I mean by
> that, given a somfile.zip or somefile.arc, could I somehow access the
> /some/path/to/image.tiff stored inside the somfile.zip? If not, would
> it be easy to add this functionality?
>
> Background: we're doing tomography here, and expect to create some PB
> of data each year, starting late 2008/early 2009. Unfortunately the
> only system able to deal with that much data (dCache) is only well
> suited for files between 100MB and 2GB, i.e. too big for a single
> slice, and too small for a stack of slices. Using archives would be
> one way around this limitation...
>
> Any pointers appreciated
>
> Sven

Try the COMPRESS keyword to the Open command??

Cheers,

Andrew

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		Re: reading data-files from archive? By: Maarten[1] on Mon, 15 October 2007 00:38
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