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From: Stefan Skoglund <stetson@ebox.tninet.se>
Subject: Re: UNIX Compressed Files From A PC
Date: 2000/08/18
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"Marin D. Condic" wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for a package that can access UNIX compressed files and
> unpack them for me. I'm in a situation where I've got to read these
> files from a WinNT PC and the files will be resident either on the PC or
> across the net on a Sun platform. I want to access them as any other
> byte stream file - Open/Read/Write/Seek/Close operations are what I

Look for zlib (ftp.gtk.org/pub/gimp/libs/zlib-1.1.2.tar.gz)

zlib implements the gzip algorithm in a library.