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
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
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