Bzip2 compression redux

[Roy Mendelssohn <rmendels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I forget to compare with gzip.  I used gzip with -best, I didn't time 
but both bzip2 and gzip took a long time.  Some of the other 
comparisons have been with GRIB or other files that have very 
different formats.  Our files are very standard 3-dimensional 
(lat-lon-time) NetCDF files, with time as the record variable. The 
results:

raw.nc        380,551,616

raw.nc.Z      143,716,211

raw.nc.gz     103,491,706

raw.nc.bz2     55,633,062


-Roy M.
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Roy Mendelssohn
Pacific Fisheries Environmental Group
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