Re: [ccp4bb] ccp4 pack_images program?

2007-08-24 Thread P.J.Briggs
Hi Bill I mean to pick this up earlier in the week but somehow it slipped through my net. Sorry. Anyhows: pack_c.c and pack_f.f are not programs but essentially subroutine libraries. You would need to write your own program to actually use them (I'm not sure that there's any documentation

Re: [ccp4bb] ccp4 pack_images program?

2007-08-23 Thread Winter, G (Graeme)
Hi Bill, It seems it would be good to have available if we are all going to put our images on our web-servers. Probably easier to either just bzip2 the images (which works reasonably well but is somewhat slow) or use one of the imgCIF jiffy programs to do this, which will correctly retain

Re: [ccp4bb] ccp4 pack_images program?

2007-08-23 Thread Jim Pflugrath
Is there any advantage to bzip2-ing the individual images rather than making one bzip2-ed tarball with tar cvfj? Yes. If you have folks sending you images by sftp or e-mail, then you don't have ensure a tarball of Giga or Tera bytes works. You can send the smaller multiple files and restart