LII. Compression functions

This module uses the functions of zlib (http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/) by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler to transparently read and write gzip (.gz) compressed files.

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gzclose — close an open gz-file pointer
gzeof — test for end-of-file on a gz-file pointer
gzfile — read entire gz-file into an array
gzgetc — get character from gz-file pointer
gzgets — get line from file pointer
gzgetss — get line from gz-file pointer and strip HTML tags
gzopen — open gz-file
gzpassthru — output all remaining data on a gz-file pointer
gzputs — write to a gz-file pointer
gzread — Binary-safe gz-file read
gzrewind — rewind the position of a gz-file pointer
gzseek — seek on a gz-file pointer
gztell — tell gz-file pointer read/write position
readgzfile — output a gz-file
gzwrite — Binary-safe gz-file write