You are right, is zlib based compression.
Best regards / Cordialmente,
William-Fernando Oquendo
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Ted Mansell <ted.mansell@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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