The Compress class defined here is based on the CACD press C library routines. A number of different FITS image compression types are supported, including H-Compress , gzip , UNIX compress and ULDA compression. Methods are available to compress and decompress images to and from memory or files. To save time in reading large FITS files, mmap may also be used to map the input files.
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