Re: NIDS decompression error

Steve Ansari wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> The NetCDF Java library seems to be having problems with certain 
> partially zlib compressed Level-III files.  Here is part of the stack 
> trace:
>
> ERROR on inflation unknown compression method
> java.util.zip.DataFormatException: unknown compression method
>        at java.util.zip.Inflater.inflateBytes(Native Method)
>        at java.util.zip.Inflater.inflate(Unknown Source)
>        at java.util.zip.Inflater.inflate(Unknown Source)
>        at 
> ucar.nc2.iosp.nids.Nidsheader.GetZlibedNexr(Nidsheader.java:1760)
>        at ucar.nc2.iosp.nids.Nidsheader.readZLibNIDS(Nidsheader.java:280)
>
> I attaching the two files, one bad, one good.
> N0R_20050721_2042 (BAD)
> N0R_20050721_2047 (GOOD)
>
> Thanks for your help on this.  The NetCDF library and decoders are 
> extremely useful!  Thanks!
>
> Steve Ansari
Hi Steve:

thanks for the report.

we've been looking at the problem, well get back to you when we have a fix.