Dans comp.lang.ada, Marin D. Condic �crit : >Apparently everyone is reading my requirement to be able to read and >write compressed files to mean that I want Read/Write access to a >compressed file. I don't. I want to be able to open a sequential, >compressed file for read access and read the bytes getting them >decompressed from the read routine. I want to open a sequential, >compressed file for write access and write bytes to it, getting them >compressed by the write routine. I also want to be able to seek to a >specific byte position within a read-access file. (Yes, I know that Skimming through this thread I don't see a mention of zlib. I think there are good chances that what Marin needs is mostly an Ada binding to zlib. See http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/. Hope this helps, Thomas. -- Thomas.Quinot@Cuivre.FR.EU.ORG