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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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