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[Johan Hake <johan.hake@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 17 December 2009 11:10:40 Anders Logg wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 04:39:14PM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > On Dec 17 2009, Johan Hake wrote:
> > >On Wednesday 16 December 2009 23:32:04 Anders Logg wrote:
> > >>Thanks!
> > >>
> > >>Strange that the files were not gzipped. I thought they would be when
> > >>saved as foo.xml.gz from DOLFIN, but apparently not.
> > >>
> > >>Looks like a bug.
> > >
> > >No it isn't. The xml library we use automagically unzip any zipped
> > >files. When we save zip files we do it by explicitly writing the
> > >strings to file. We need to provide a proper zip algorithm.
> 
> Why isn't it a bug? If one does
> 
>   file = File("foo.xml.gz")
>   file << foo
> 
> then one expects the file to be gzipped.

Well, I guess you are right. 

> So until we implement gzip on output we should probably disable that
> suffix for output.

Sounds like the way to go.

Johan

> --
> Anders
> 
> > >boost provide such frameworks with its ostream library. I is quite
> > >neat, but of course it makes heavy use of templates. I used it in
> > >a previous version of TriTetMesh, but abandoned it because I could
> > >not figure out template related stuff. It should be quite straight
> > >forward for a C++ Guru to include for our xml files.
> >
> > I looked at Boost for the compressed .vtu files, and it was horrible
> > and incomplete. Instead, I used zlib to compress parts of the .vtu
> > files. It was pretty easy, so it should be easy to compress entire
> > files.
> >
> > Garth
> >
> > >Johan
> > >
> > >
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