Re: compress records

[mrk@aps.anl.gov (Marty Kraimer)]

> From denali!greene Thu May 25 09:29 CDT 1995
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> Looking at the documentation and the source for the compress records, it
> looks like the input to this record is a single sample of NSAM channels.
> I need to be able to average a waveform record buffer but it appears that
> the compress record cannot do this.  Is this correct?  If so, is there a
> record type already defined that will do this?
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The following is taken from the record reference manual (compress record)

If NTO1LOW, NTO1HIGH, or NTO1AVE are chosen, then VAL is a cdircular
buffer of length NSAM. ... If INP refers to an array, then each time the
record is processed, the array referenced by INP is obtained, divided into
sub_arrays each of length N and the algorithm applied to each sub-array.
The result from each subarray is written to the circular buffer referenced
by VAL.

If all you want to do is average a waveform just set

NSAM=1
ALG = NTO1AVE
N = length of input array

Marty Kraimer