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RE: Databases, was Data Processing Switch
The best would be:
<bzip2 *.foo>
But while bzip2 is available on Windows (http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/),
not everyone has it. So, the second best choice would be:
<gzip --best *.foo>
You have both of these on you Linux systems.
Cheers,
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Droege [mailto:tdroege2@earthlink.net]
> Sent: June 03, 2003 10:30 AM
> To: Chris Albertson; Robert Creager; tass@listserv.wwa.com
> Subject: Re: Databases, was Data Processing Switch
>
>
> The disks I am sending out are uncompressed. Sigh! Just one
> more thing to
> learn. Someone give me a command line that will compress a
> directory that
> is good for tabluar data:
>
> > compress *.foo > glop
>
> and I will try it.
>
> Tom Droege
>
> At 11:05 PM 6/2/03 -0700, Chris Albertson wrote:
>
> >How big are the files? After compression. Tabular
> >data should compress well. Maybe someone who has a
> >good internet connection can put them on-line.
> >
> >My vision for how a database should work is that the person
> who has a
> >camera runs a little program that opens a connection
> (posably over the
> >Internet) and populates a database as the last stage in the
> pipeline.
> >A databse can stay up to date in near real time.
> >
> >
> >--- Robert Creager <Robert_Creager@LogicalChaos.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 02 Jun 2003 23:24:48 -0500
> > > Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net> said something like:
> > >
> > > > I just made 2 copies of the files to send to Michael S. (for the
> > > data
> > > > base) and Michael R. (To look at the data quality).
> It is a five
> > > > disk set so I don't really want to make a lot of
> copies. Still if
> > > any
> > > > of you data base fans want a set I will make one for you. There
> > > are
> > > > only about 3 full disks 15 million measurement pairs
> or so. It
> > > > is convenient to separate the older and newer data and by TOM.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I'd be happy to take a second hand set of disks, and can
> pass them
> > > along to the next person if there are more takers. Saves
> your time,
> > > and I'm
> > > in no hurry.
> > >
> > > I'd have to adjust my import/dB some, as when I import
> the data for
> > > my system, I import based on FITS files and add some of the FITS
> > > headers to
> > > the dB.
> > >
> > > Later,
> > > Rob
> > >
> > > --
> > > O_
> > >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
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