1Libgta is a portable library that implements the Generic Tagged Array (GTA) file 2format. This file format has the following features: 3 4* GTAs can store any kind of data in multidimensional arrays 5* GTAs can optionally use simple tags to store rich metadata 6* GTAs are streamable, which allows direct reading from and writing to pipes, 7 network sockets, and other non-seekable media 8* GTAs can use ZLIB, BZIP2, or XZ compression, allowing a tradeoff between 9 compression/decompression speed and compression ratio 10* Uncompressed GTA files allow easy out-of-core data access for very large 11 arrays 12 13See http://gta.nongnu.org/ for more information. 14