[vox-tech] reading a .gz .Z after offset

[Eric Engelhard]

Jeff Newmiller wrote:
[snip]
> 
> I don't think you can do seeks in a compressed file... you have to read it
> sequentially.
> 
> If you have a plan for dividing up the uncompressed data, perhaps you
> should do that first and store the split data as separate files
> (recompressed or not) for purposes of computation.

The 4 GB limit necessitates the decompression/recompression. I suppose
I'll have to stick with a single node process for now.

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