Zlib decompression - Any ideas?

Mark Smith lists at futilism.com
Sat Dec 27 15:47:51 EST 2008


Ken, from the man page for gunzip:

gunzip takes a list of files on its command line and replaces each file
        whose  name  ends with .gz, -gz, .z, -z, _z or .Z and which  
begins with
        the correct magic number with an uncompressed file without  
the original
        extension.


So I'm guessing that a shell call to gunzip should be able to cope...


Best,

Mark

On 27 Dec 2008, at 20:17, Ken Ray wrote:

> Hey all... I may be getting some files sent to me that were  
> compressed using
> the public zlib library.
>
> My understanding is that the compress() and decompress() functions  
> are built
> as wrappers around the zlib library, but may require certain  
> headers or
> length bytes or something that these raw zlib-compressed files may  
> not have.
>
> Any ideas on how I can decompress these files with Rev?
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>
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