[Gretl-devel] gzipped csv files

Hi all, in a recent exercise I needed to store gzipped-compressed csv files. Unfortunately the "--gzipped" option of the "store" command is only supported for the native format. Ok, I wrote a function executing some shell command compressing the files. However, I am wondering whether we could have also the compression supported for csv files. Some more background: I had to store _many_ csv files, and to upload these to a HDFS (hadoop) file system. Querying data is done by means of Apache's HIVE or Impala tools. These work either with csv or gzipped-csv (among other binary data formats such as Apache's Parquet file). Unfortunately, files stored in the native binary format are not supported. Best, Artur