Hi all, I would like to change so ARTSCAT-5 is the default format of lines when reading from external files. Internal files can keep the old formats. That is HITRAN and LBLRTM reading will be of ARTSCAT-5 type.
The reason to make the change is that I often run into problems of lost data because ARTSCAT-3 simply throws it away. We cannot make individual lines that require more data be stored as ARTSCAT-5 and keep the others in the old format because ArrayOfLineRecord acts as a pseudo-class in reading/writing. The negatives: Will take more disk space and be slower to read/write. The positives: Saving an ARTS-variable does not throw away information contained in the variable. I think it is clear that the advantages are greater than the disadvantages. I was told before that the advantages were not greater than the disadvantages. Back then there were less users of features in ARTSCAT-5 (basically only me), now there are more and complaints about this feature has been raised to me by others. Have the opinion of the developers changed so we can switch to ARTSCAT-5, or do they remain the same? With hope, //Richard
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