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GetData is a library that provides an API to interface with dirfile databases. The dirfile database format is designed to provide a fast, scalable format for storing and reading binary, synchronously-sampled, time-ordered data. GetData was originally written for the BOOMERanG and BLAST experiments as a data format suitable for use for both quick-look and data reduction. It is now used by many other cosmological and astrophysical experiments including ACT, Planck, Spider, SPUD, as well as other projects.License: GNU General Public License (GPL)Changes:
This release is expected to be API-complete (i.e. although functionality may still be missing, no further additions to the list of public function provided by GetData are expected). In addition to various bugfixes, changes include the ability to delete fields, modify field metadata, change the frameoffset, encoding, byte ordering, or reference field, move fields between format file fragments, and to remove fragments from a dirfile. Read-only support for bzip2 and gzip compression has also been implemented.



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