Sameer Zaidi
Answered On : Sep 3rd, 2012
The Decode stage is a processing stage. It decodes a data set using a UNIX decoding command, such as
gzip, that you supply. It converts a data stream of raw binary data into a data set. Its companion stage,
Encode, converts a data set from a sequence of records to a stream of raw binary data.
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