Release of NeXus v1.3.0 with data compression

[Mark Koennecke]

On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Ray Osborn wrote:

> 
> In the core API, compression is invoked by a call to NXcompress between
> calls to NXopendata and NXputdata or NXputslab.  

  NXputslab works only if you append along an unlimited dimension. Else
  the dataset has to be written in one go, otherwise compression won't
  work. This limit is imposed by the implementation of SDsetcompress
  in the HDF library.

                      Mark