Volume Bundles at the PDS Rings Node

• To facilitate downloading entire data volumes, the PDS Rings Node provides "bundled" volumes. The bundled volumes are in .tar.gz format meaning that they are Unix tar files further compressed using gnuzip.
• There are a large number of compression programs that will handle this scheme. Unix, Linux, and Mac OS-X operating systems generally come with suitable software. Windows users who need a tool to access these files might consider the open software utility 7-zip which, during testing here, opened the largest of our bundles with no difficulties.