Correct, but writing is with zlib only, not szip. Szip is read-only for some
reason (and hdf5 has to be compiled with szip support). The ability to write
with szip compression was added briefly, but was quickly removed -- for some
reason that didn't make sense to me.
-- Ted
On Aug 21, 2012, at 8:40 PM, William Oquendo wrote:
> Hello,
> Just to say I have found that indeed is possible to do compression (per
> variable). In particular, I am using the setCompression function in the cxx
> interface.
>
> Best regards / Cordialmente,
>
> William-Fernando Oquendo
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>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 7:56 PM, William Oquendo <woquendo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> After reading the mailing archives, it is clear that originally netcdf was
> able to be compiled with compressed libraries in order to READ compressed
> files.
> With the current version of netcdf (4.2.1), compiled with hdf5support and
> szip, is it possible to WRITE compressed files? If not, is this planned?
> And another possibly silly question, just to know: If I compiled my netcdf
> installation with hdf5 support, will all my netcdf files be actually hdf5
> files?
> Thanks for your kind help.
>
> Best regards / Cordialmente,
>
> William-Fernando Oquendo
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