[MINC-users] MINC 2.0.13

[Alex Zijdenbos]

This sounds reasonable to me - any reason why these wouldn't be
MINC2's own defaults, as opposed to having to be set by the user with
(obscure?) environment vars?

-- A

On 9/15/07, Claude LEPAGE <claude at bic.mni.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is my strongly suggested way of using minc2.
>
> Set your shell environment to include (in csh):
>      setenv MINC_FORCE_V2 1
>      setenv MINC_COMPRESS 4
>
> You can place those commands in your .cshrc or .bashrc (for sh
> users).
>
> This will make minc2 behave as I think it should behave: always
> produce minc2 output, but seamlessly read minc1 or minc2. No need
> to specify -2 on some of the tools, nor do you have to convert
> your original images from minc1 to minc2.
>
> The second flag activates internal compression. The compression
> ratio is as good as gzip and compression is very fast too that it
> should always be used.
>
> bye
>
> Claude
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