hello Fabrizio,
yes it is possible in the ROOT framework :
http://root.cern.ch/root/Version40008.news.html
since version 4.00.08.
but my questions were more related about a potential usage outside the
ROOT framework.
cheers,
JY
Fabrizio Furano wrote:
> Hi JY,
>
> I don't want to be sure, but i believe that ROOT allows you to read
> from archives (zip?) specifying the archive name in the url. I want to
> check.
>
> Fabrizio
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> Jean-Yves Nief wrote:
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>> hello,
>>
>> ROOT is giving the possibility of reading zip archive, which
>> is a nice feature, though I did not test it yet
>> I think I found a potential interest for it outside the ROOT
>> framework in astrophysics: some experiments are reading FITS files
>> which are not rather small (10's of MB) and they usually organize
>> them in zip archive that can be easily stored into HPSS (less files,
>> less bookkeping, users happier, HPSS admins happier too :-) ).
>> I was wondering if the same ROOT feature would be difficult to
>> implement on the TXNetFile side if it is not implemented there.
>> one other thing: based on the current documentation, client side
>> decompression is not supported yet, right ?
>> thanks in advance,
>> JY
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