Robert S Laramee wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> >
> > along these same lines, i have a little app i wrote that reads ASCII
> > data files, builds a VisAD data structure with the data and writes out
> > netCDF files (for use with the SpreadSheet). these netCDF files are
> > signifigantly larger than the ASCII! 2.6 Mb of ASCII data becomes a 4.6
> > Mb netCDF file. is this expected, or is it likely i'm doing something
> > wrong?
>
> Are you using Java's Output Object Serialization to do this? I ran into a
> very similar problem with Java's ObjectOutputStream. If you are invoking:
No - I'm just using a Plain Object to do the saving, as in:
public void saveData(String outputFileName, Data d) throws
BadFormException,
IOException,
VisADException,
RemoteException {
File f = new File(outputFileName);
Plain saver = new Plain();
saver.save(f.getPath(), d, true);
saver = null;
}
-john
