winrar says it can uncompress bz2 and tar.bz2
http://www.rarlab.com/otherfmt.htm
Without changing the bz2's file extension run winrar on it and it should
produce a hdf file out of it. I haven't run winrar but it may also
allow you to view the table of contents of the bz2 file so you know what
is in it even before decompressing
On 11/28/2010 06:50 AM, mahesh shiramgond wrote:
Hi Roger,
I have OS Windows XP Professional running on my machine with WINRAR
compression software.
I tried accordingly as george advised to change the extension but same
error.
here I noticed that saved file with .hdf extension is appearing with
HDF view icon.
I tried reinstalling HDF view but problem remains same.
Kindly advise, is there any other interface i can use to view these
HDF files?
Thanks and Regards
Mahesh
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Roger Martin <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Mahesh,
I believe George was saying don't change the extension but
uncompress/unzip them. Through these messages I didn't gather
which operating system you are using and what compression software
will work for you. Probably the file inside the *.bz2 has the .h5
extension which will be there after uncompression.
On linux or MacOSX boxes you can right click and "Extract here".
On windows I use a small Ant script but that takes understanding
Ant. Someone should know of a bz2 decompressor for you in the
window's case.
On 11/28/2010 12:52 AM, mahesh shiramgond wrote:
Hi George,
Do you mean to say that I have to save these files as .hdf while
downloading?
If yes, do I need to put '.hdf' at the end of the file name? for
your information this is a zipped file.
If not, do I need to change the name of the file just adding
'.hdf' at the end of the file name
Please suggest and even first option is not opening file but
showing same error.
Regards
mahesh
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 4:54 PM, George N. White III
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Steve Bissell
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Hi Mahesh. I've never used the MODIS tool, but out of
curiosity I checked the
> web site, it looks to me like what you download from those
sites are either
> JPEG, PNG, GeoTIFF or GoogleEarth format files. None of
those are HDF file
> formats in any way .... or maybe I'm misunderstanding the
web site?
If you use the "download data" button you get an hdf4 file,
but in
bzip2 compressed
form. This has been a major source of confusion for new
users -- it
would be nice
very helpful if hdfview could do some checks for common
archive and compression
formats -- people often get data in a form that can't used
directly
without realizing some
extra steps are needed -- a common mistake with NASA OBPG
files that
don't have .hdf
extension is to rename .bz2 to .hdf.
> Steve
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