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19.5 Per-Variable Compression in NetCDF-4
Chunked variables in netCDF-4 files may use on-the-fly compression
with zlib.
 
/* Set compression settings for a variable. Lower is faster, higher is
 * better. Must be called after nc_def_var and before nc_enddef. */
EXTERNL int
nc_def_var_deflate(int ncid, int varid, int shuffle, int deflate, 
   int deflate_level);
/* Find out compression settings of a var. */
EXTERNL int
nc_inq_var_deflate(int ncid, int varid, int *shufflep, 
   int *deflatep, int *deflate_levelp);
 
 
 
  
   
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