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+<h2 align="center"> zlib Usage Example </h2>
+We often get questions about how the <tt>deflate()</tt> and <tt>inflate()</tt> functions should be used.
+Users wonder when they should provide more input, when they should use more output,
+what to do with a <tt>Z_BUF_ERROR</tt>, how to make sure the process terminates properly, and
+so on.  So for those who have read <tt>zlib.h</tt> (a few times), and
+would like further edification, below is an annotated example in C of simple routines to compress and decompress
+from an input file to an output file using <tt>deflate()</tt> and <tt>inflate()</tt> respectively.  The
+annotations are interspersed between lines of the code.  So please read between the lines.
+We hope this helps explain some of the intricacies of <em>zlib</em>.
+<p>
+Without further adieu, here is the program <a href="zpipe.c"><tt>zpipe.c</tt></a>:
+<pre><b>
+/* zpipe.c: example of proper use of zlib's inflate() and deflate()
+   Not copyrighted -- provided to the public domain
+   Version 1.2  9 November 2004  Mark Adler */
+/* Version history:
+   1.0  30 Oct 2004  First version
+   1.1   8 Nov 2004  Add void casting for unused return values
+                     Use switch statement for inflate() return values
+   1.2   9 Nov 2004  Add assertions to document zlib guarantees
+ */
+</b></pre><!-- -->
+We now include the header files for the required definitions.  From
+<tt>stdio.h</tt> we use <tt>fopen()</tt>, <tt>fread()</tt>, <tt>fwrite()</tt>,
+<tt>feof()</tt>, <tt>ferror()</tt>, and <tt>fclose()</tt> for file i/o, and
+<tt>fputs()</tt> for error messages.  From <tt>string.h</tt> we use
+<tt>strcmp()</tt> for command line argument processing.
+From <tt>assert.h</tt> we use the <tt>assert()</tt> macro.
+From <tt>zlib.h</tt>
+we use the basic compression functions <tt>deflateInit()</tt>,
+<tt>deflate()</tt>, and <tt>deflateEnd()</tt>, and the basic decompression
+functions <tt>inflateInit()</tt>, <tt>inflate()</tt>, and
+<tt>inflateEnd()</tt>.
+<pre><b>
+#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
+#include &lt;string.h&gt;
+#include &lt;assert.h&gt;
+#include "zlib.h"
+</b></pre><!-- -->
+<tt>CHUNK</tt> is simply the buffer size for feeding data to and pulling data
+from the <em>zlib</em> routines.  Larger buffer sizes would be more efficient,
+especially for <tt>inflate()</tt>.  If the memory is available, buffers sizes
+on the order of 128K or 256K bytes should be used.
+<pre><b>
+#define CHUNK 16384
+</b></pre><!-- -->
+The <tt>def()</tt> routine compresses data from an input file to an output file.  The output data
+will be in the <em>zlib</em> format, which is different from the <em>gzip</em> or <em>zip</em>
+formats.  The <em>zlib</em> format has a very small header of only two bytes to identify it as
+a <em>zlib</em> stream and to provide decoding information, and a four-byte trailer with a fast
+check value to verify the integrity of the uncompressed data after decoding.
+<pre><b>
+/* Compress from file source to file dest until EOF on source.
+   def() returns Z_OK on success, Z_MEM_ERROR if memory could not be
+   allocated for processing, Z_STREAM_ERROR if an invalid compression
+   level is supplied, Z_VERSION_ERROR if the version of zlib.h and the
+   version of the library linked do not match, or Z_ERRNO if there is
+   an error reading or writing the files. */
+int def(FILE *source, FILE *dest, int level)
+{
+</b></pre>
+Here are the local variables for <tt>def()</tt>.  <tt>ret</tt> will be used for <em>zlib</em>
+return codes.  <tt>flush</tt> will keep track of the current flushing state for <tt>deflate()</tt>,
+which is either no flushing, or flush to completion after the end of the input file is reached.
+<tt>have</tt> is the amount of data returned from <tt>deflate()</tt>.  The <tt>strm</tt> structure
+is used to pass information to and from the <em>zlib</em> routines, and to maintain the
+<tt>deflate()</tt> state.  <tt>in</tt> and <tt>out</tt> are the input and output buffers for
+<tt>deflate()</tt>.
+<pre><b>
+    int ret, flush;
+    unsigned have;
+    z_stream strm;
+    char in[CHUNK];
+    char out[CHUNK];
+</b></pre><!-- -->
+The first thing we do is to initialize the <em>zlib</em> state for compression using
+<tt>deflateInit()</tt>.  This must be done before the first use of <tt>deflate()</tt>.
+The <tt>zalloc</tt>, <tt>zfree</tt>, and <tt>opaque</tt> fields in the <tt>strm</tt>
+structure must be initialized before calling <tt>deflateInit()</tt>.  Here they are
+set to the <em>zlib</em> constant <tt>Z_NULL</tt> to request that <em>zlib</em> use
+the default memory allocation routines.  An application may also choose to provide
+custom memory allocation routines here.  <tt>deflateInit()</tt> will allocate on the
+order of 256K bytes for the internal state.
+(See <a href="zlib_tech.html"><em>zlib Technical Details</em></a>.)
+<p>
+<tt>deflateInit()</tt> is called with a pointer to the structure to be initialized and
+the compression level, which is an integer in the range of -1 to 9.  Lower compression
+levels result in faster execution, but less compression.  Higher levels result in
+greater compression, but slower execution.  The <em>zlib</em> constant Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION,
+equal to -1,
+provides a good compromise between compression and speed and is equivalent to level 6.
+Level 0 actually does no compression at all, and in fact expands the data slightly to produce
+the <em>zlib</em> format (it is not a byte-for-byte copy of the input).
+More advanced applications of <em>zlib</em>
+may use <tt>deflateInit2()</tt> here instead.  Such an application may want to reduce how
+much memory will be used, at some price in compression.  Or it may need to request a
+<em>gzip</em> header and trailer instead of a <em>zlib</em> header and trailer, or raw
+encoding with no header or trailer at all.
+<p>
+We must check the return value of <tt>deflateInit()</tt> against the <em>zlib</em> constant
+<tt>Z_OK</tt> to make sure that it was able to
+allocate memory for the internal state, and that the provided arguments were valid.
+<tt>deflateInit()</tt> will also check that the version of <em>zlib</em> that the <tt>zlib.h</tt>
+file came from matches the version of <em>zlib</em> actually linked with the program.  This
+is especially important for environments in which <em>zlib</em> is a shared library.
+<p>
+Note that an application can initialize multiple, independent <em>zlib</em> streams, which can
+operate in parallel.  The state information maintained in the structure allows the <em>zlib</em>
+routines to be reentrant.
+<pre><b>
+    /* allocate deflate state */
+    strm.zalloc = Z_NULL;
+    strm.zfree = Z_NULL;
+    strm.opaque = Z_NULL;
+    ret = deflateInit(&amp;strm, level);
+    if (ret != Z_OK)
+        return ret;
+</b></pre><!-- -->
+With the pleasantries out of the way, now we can get down to business.  The outer <tt>do</tt>-loop
+reads all of the input file and exits at the bottom of the loop once end-of-file is reached.
+This loop contains the only call of <tt>deflate()</tt>.  So we must make sure that all of the
+input data has been processed and that all of the output data has been generated and consumed
+before we fall out of the loop at the bottom.
+<pre><b>
+    /* compress until end of file */
+    do {
+</b></pre>
+We start off by reading data from the input file.  The number of bytes read is put directly
+into <tt>avail_in</tt>, and a pointer to those bytes is put into <tt>next_in</tt>.  We also
+check to see if end-of-file on the input has been reached.  If we are at the end of file, then <tt>flush</tt> is set to the
+<em>zlib</em> constant <tt>Z_FINISH</tt>, which is later passed to <tt>deflate()</tt> to
+indicate that this is the last chunk of input data to compress.  We need to use <tt>feof()</tt>
+to check for end-of-file as opposed to seeing if fewer than <tt>CHUNK</tt> bytes have been read.  The
+reason is that if the input file length is an exact multiple of <tt>CHUNK</tt>, we will miss
+the fact that we got to the end-of-file, and not know to tell <tt>deflate()</tt> to finish
+up the compressed stream.  If we are not yet at the end of the input, then the <em>zlib</em>
+constant <tt>Z_NO_FLUSH</tt> will be passed to <tt>deflate</tt> to indicate that we are still
+in the middle of the uncompressed data.
+<p>
+If there is an error in reading from the input file, the process is aborted with
+<tt>deflateEnd()</tt> being called to free the allocated <em>zlib</em> state before returning
+the error.  We wouldn't want a memory leak, now would we?  <tt>deflateEnd()</tt> can be called
+at any time after the state has been initialized.  Once that's done, <tt>deflateInit()</tt> (or
+<tt>deflateInit2()</tt>) would have to be called to start a new compression process.  There is
+no point here in checking the <tt>deflateEnd()</tt> return code.  The deallocation can't fail.
+<pre><b>
+        strm.avail_in = fread(in, 1, CHUNK, source);
+        if (ferror(source)) {
+            (void)deflateEnd(&amp;strm);
+            return Z_ERRNO;
+        }
+        flush = feof(source) ? Z_FINISH : Z_NO_FLUSH;
+        strm.next_in = in;
+</b></pre><!-- -->
+The inner <tt>do</tt>-loop passes our chunk of input data to <tt>deflate()</tt>, and then
+keeps calling <tt>deflate()</tt> until it is done producing output.  Once there is no more
+new output, <tt>deflate()</tt> is guaranteed to have consumed all of the input, i.e.,
+<tt>avail_in</tt> will be zero.
+<pre><b>
+        /* run deflate() on input until output buffer not full, finish
+           compression if all of source has been read in */
+        do {
+</b></pre>
+Output space is provided to <tt>deflate()</tt> by setting <tt>avail_out</tt> to the number
+of available output bytes and <tt>next_out</tt> to a pointer to that space.
+<pre><b>
+            strm.avail_out = CHUNK;
+            strm.next_out = out;
+</b></pre>
+Now we call the compression engine itself, <tt>deflate()</tt>.  It takes as many of the
+<tt>avail_in</tt> bytes at <tt>next_in</tt> as it can process, and writes as many as
+<tt>avail_out</tt> bytes to <tt>next_out</tt>.  Those counters and pointers are then
+updated past the input data consumed and the output data written.  It is the amount of
+output space available that may limit how much input is consumed.
+Hence the inner loop to make sure that
+all of the input is consumed by providing more output space each time.  Since <tt>avail_in</tt>
+and <tt>next_in</tt> are updated by <tt>deflate()</tt>, we don't have to mess with those
+between <tt>deflate()</tt> calls until it's all used up.
+<p>
+The parameters to <tt>deflate()</tt> are a pointer to the <tt>strm</tt> structure containing
+the input and output information and the internal compression engine state, and a parameter
+indicating whether and how to flush data to the output.  Normally <tt>deflate</tt> will consume
+several K bytes of input data before producing any output (except for the header), in order
+to accumulate statistics on the data for optimum compression.  It will then put out a burst of
+compressed data, and proceed to consume more input before the next burst.  Eventually,
+<tt>deflate()</tt>
+must be told to terminate the stream, complete the compression with provided input data, and
+write out the trailer check value.  <tt>deflate()</tt> will continue to compress normally as long
+as the flush parameter is <tt>Z_NO_FLUSH</tt>.  Once the <tt>Z_FINISH</tt> parameter is provided,
+<tt>deflate()</tt> will begin to complete the compressed output stream.  However depending on how
+much output space is provided, <tt>deflate()</tt> may have to be called several times until it
+has provided the complete compressed stream, even after it has consumed all of the input.  The flush
+parameter must continue to be <tt>Z_FINISH</tt> for those subsequent calls.
+<p>
+There are other values of the flush parameter that are used in more advanced applications.  You can
+force <tt>deflate()</tt> to produce a burst of output that encodes all of the input data provided
+so far, even if it wouldn't have otherwise, for example to control data latency on a link with
+compressed data.  You can also ask that <tt>deflate()</tt> do that as well as erase any history up to
+that point so that what follows can be decompressed independently, for example for random access
+applications.  Both requests will degrade compression by an amount depending on how often such
+requests are made.
+<p>
+<tt>deflate()</tt> has a return value that can indicate errors, yet we do not check it here.  Why
+not?  Well, it turns out that <tt>deflate()</tt> can do no wrong here.  Let's go through
+<tt>deflate()</tt>'s return values and dispense with them one by one.  The possible values are
+<tt>Z_OK</tt>, <tt>Z_STREAM_END</tt>, <tt>Z_STREAM_ERROR</tt>, or <tt>Z_BUF_ERROR</tt>.  <tt>Z_OK</tt>
+is, well, ok.  <tt>Z_STREAM_END</tt> is also ok and will be returned for the last call of
+<tt>deflate()</tt>.  This is already guaranteed by calling <tt>deflate()</tt> with <tt>Z_FINISH</tt>
+until it has no more output.  <tt>Z_STREAM_ERROR</tt> is only possible if the stream is not
+initialized properly, but we did initialize it properly.  There is no harm in checking for
+<tt>Z_STREAM_ERROR</tt> here, for example to check for the possibility that some
+other part of the application inadvertently clobbered the memory containing the <em>zlib</em> state.
+<tt>Z_BUF_ERROR</tt> will be explained further below, but
+suffice it to say that this is simply an indication that <tt>deflate()</tt> could not consume
+more input or produce more output.  <tt>deflate()</tt> can be called again with more output space
+or more available input, which it will be in this code.
+<pre><b>
+            ret = deflate(&amp;strm, flush);    /* no bad return value */
+            assert(ret != Z_STREAM_ERROR);  /* state not clobbered */
+</b></pre>
+Now we compute how much output <tt>deflate()</tt> provided on the last call, which is the
+difference between how much space was provided before the call, and how much output space
+is still available after the call.  Then that data, if any, is written to the output file.
+We can then reuse the output buffer for the next call of <tt>deflate()</tt>.  Again if there
+is a file i/o error, we call <tt>deflateEnd()</tt> before returning to avoid a memory leak.
+<pre><b>
+            have = CHUNK - strm.avail_out;
+            if (fwrite(out, 1, have, dest) != have || ferror(dest)) {
+                (void)deflateEnd(&amp;strm);
+                return Z_ERRNO;
+            }
+</b></pre>
+The inner <tt>do</tt>-loop is repeated until the last <tt>deflate()</tt> call fails to fill the
+provided output buffer.  Then we know that <tt>deflate()</tt> has done as much as it can with
+the provided input, and that all of that input has been consumed.  We can then fall out of this
+loop and reuse the input buffer.
+<p>
+The way we tell that <tt>deflate()</tt> has no more output is by seeing that it did not fill
+the output buffer, leaving <tt>avail_out</tt> greater than zero.  However suppose that
+<tt>deflate()</tt> has no more output, but just so happened to exactly fill the output buffer!
+<tt>avail_out</tt> is zero, and we can't tell that <tt>deflate()</tt> has done all it can.
+As far as we know, <tt>deflate()</tt>
+has more output for us.  So we call it again.  But now <tt>deflate()</tt> produces no output
+at all, and <tt>avail_out</tt> remains unchanged as <tt>CHUNK</tt>.  That <tt>deflate()</tt> call
+wasn't able to do anything, either consume input or produce output, and so it returns
+<tt>Z_BUF_ERROR</tt>.  (See, I told you I'd cover this later.)  However this is not a problem at
+all.  Now we finally have the desired indication that <tt>deflate()</tt> is really done,
+and so we drop out of the inner loop to provide more input to <tt>deflate()</tt>.
+<p>
+With <tt>flush</tt> set to <tt>Z_FINISH</tt>, this final set of <tt>deflate()</tt> calls will
+complete the output stream.  Once that is done, subsequent calls of <tt>deflate()</tt> would return
+<tt>Z_STREAM_ERROR</tt> if the flush parameter is not <tt>Z_FINISH</tt>, and do no more processing
+until the state is reinitialized.
+<p>
+Some applications of <em>zlib</em> have two loops that call <tt>deflate()</tt>
+instead of the single inner loop we have here.  The first loop would call
+without flushing and feed all of the data to <tt>deflate()</tt>.  The second loop would call
+<tt>deflate()</tt> with no more
+data and the <tt>Z_FINISH</tt> parameter to complete the process.  As you can see from this
+example, that can be avoided by simply keeping track of the current flush state.
+<pre><b>
+        } while (strm.avail_out == 0);
+        assert(strm.avail_in == 0);     /* all input will be used */
+</b></pre><!-- -->
+Now we check to see if we have already processed all of the input file.  That information was
+saved in the <tt>flush</tt> variable, so we see if that was set to <tt>Z_FINISH</tt>.  If so,
+then we're done and we fall out of the outer loop.  We're guaranteed to get <tt>Z_STREAM_END</tt>
+from the last <tt>deflate()</tt> call, since we ran it until the last chunk of input was
+consumed and all of the output was generated.
+<pre><b>
+        /* done when last data in file processed */
+    } while (flush != Z_FINISH);
+    assert(ret == Z_STREAM_END);        /* stream will be complete */
+</b></pre><!-- -->
+The process is complete, but we still need to deallocate the state to avoid a memory leak
+(or rather more like a memory hemorrhage if you didn't do this).  Then
+finally we can return with a happy return value.
+<pre><b>
+    /* clean up and return */
+    (void)deflateEnd(&amp;strm);
+    return Z_OK;
+}
+</b></pre><!-- -->
+Now we do the same thing for decompression in the <tt>inf()</tt> routine. <tt>inf()</tt>
+decompresses what is hopefully a valid <em>zlib</em> stream from the input file and writes the
+uncompressed data to the output file.  Much of the discussion above for <tt>def()</tt>
+applies to <tt>inf()</tt> as well, so the discussion here will focus on the differences between
+the two.
+<pre><b>
+/* Decompress from file source to file dest until stream ends or EOF.
+   inf() returns Z_OK on success, Z_MEM_ERROR if memory could not be
+   allocated for processing, Z_DATA_ERROR if the deflate data is
+   invalid or incomplete, Z_VERSION_ERROR if the version of zlib.h and
+   the version of the library linked do not match, or Z_ERRNO if there
+   is an error reading or writing the files. */
+int inf(FILE *source, FILE *dest)
+{
+</b></pre>
+The local variables have the same functionality as they do for <tt>def()</tt>.  The
+only difference is that there is no <tt>flush</tt> variable, since <tt>inflate()</tt>
+can tell from the <em>zlib</em> stream itself when the stream is complete.
+<pre><b>
+    int ret;
+    unsigned have;
+    z_stream strm;
+    char in[CHUNK];
+    char out[CHUNK];
+</b></pre><!-- -->
+The initialization of the state is the same, except that there is no compression level,
+of course, and two more elements of the structure are initialized.  <tt>avail_in</tt>
+and <tt>next_in</tt> must be initialized before calling <tt>inflateInit()</tt>.  This
+is because the application has the option to provide the start of the zlib stream in
+order for <tt>inflateInit()</tt> to have access to information about the compression
+method to aid in memory allocation.  In the current implementation of <em>zlib</em>
+(up through versions 1.2.x), the method-dependent memory allocations are deferred to the first call of
+<tt>inflate()</tt> anyway.  However those fields must be initialized since later versions
+of <em>zlib</em> that provide more compression methods may take advantage of this interface.
+In any case, no decompression is performed by <tt>inflateInit()</tt>, so the
+<tt>avail_out</tt> and <tt>next_out</tt> fields do not need to be initialized before calling.
+<p>
+Here <tt>avail_in</tt> is set to zero and <tt>next_in</tt> is set to <tt>Z_NULL</tt> to
+indicate that no input data is being provided.
+<pre><b>
+    /* allocate inflate state */
+    strm.zalloc = Z_NULL;
+    strm.zfree = Z_NULL;
+    strm.opaque = Z_NULL;
+    strm.avail_in = 0;
+    strm.next_in = Z_NULL;
+    ret = inflateInit(&amp;strm);
+    if (ret != Z_OK)
+        return ret;
+</b></pre><!-- -->
+The outer <tt>do</tt>-loop decompresses input until <tt>inflate()</tt> indicates
+that it has reached the end of the compressed data and has produced all of the uncompressed
+output.  This is in contrast to <tt>def()</tt> which processes all of the input file.
+If end-of-file is reached before the compressed data self-terminates, then the compressed
+data is incomplete and an error is returned.
+<pre><b>
+    /* decompress until deflate stream ends or end of file */
+    do {
+</b></pre>
+We read input data and set the <tt>strm</tt> structure accordingly.  If we've reached the
+end of the input file, then we leave the outer loop and report an error, since the
+compressed data is incomplete.  Note that we may read more data than is eventually consumed
+by <tt>inflate()</tt>, if the input file continues past the <em>zlib</em> stream.
+For applications where <em>zlib</em> streams are embedded in other data, this routine would
+need to be modified to return the unused data, or at least indicate how much of the input
+data was not used, so the application would know where to pick up after the <em>zlib</em> stream.
+<pre><b>
+        strm.avail_in = fread(in, 1, CHUNK, source);
+        if (ferror(source)) {
+            (void)inflateEnd(&amp;strm);
+            return Z_ERRNO;
+        }
+        if (strm.avail_in == 0)
+            break;
+        strm.next_in = in;
+</b></pre><!-- -->
+The inner <tt>do</tt>-loop has the same function it did in <tt>def()</tt>, which is to
+keep calling <tt>inflate()</tt> until has generated all of the output it can with the
+provided input.
+<pre><b>
+        /* run inflate() on input until output buffer not full */
+        do {
+</b></pre>
+Just like in <tt>def()</tt>, the same output space is provided for each call of <tt>inflate()</tt>.
+<pre><b>
+            strm.avail_out = CHUNK;
+            strm.next_out = out;
+</b></pre>
+Now we run the decompression engine itself.  There is no need to adjust the flush parameter, since
+the <em>zlib</em> format is self-terminating. The main difference here is that there are
+return values that we need to pay attention to.  <tt>Z_DATA_ERROR</tt>
+indicates that <tt>inflate()</tt> detected an error in the <em>zlib</em> compressed data format,
+which means that either the data is not a <em>zlib</em> stream to begin with, or that the data was
+corrupted somewhere along the way since it was compressed.  The other error to be processed is
+<tt>Z_MEM_ERROR</tt>, which can occur since memory allocation is deferred until <tt>inflate()</tt>
+needs it, unlike <tt>deflate()</tt>, whose memory is allocated at the start by <tt>deflateInit()</tt>.
+<p>
+Advanced applications may use
+<tt>deflateSetDictionary()</tt> to prime <tt>deflate()</tt> with a set of likely data to improve the
+first 32K or so of compression.  This is noted in the <em>zlib</em> header, so <tt>inflate()</tt>
+requests that that dictionary be provided before it can start to decompress.  Without the dictionary,
+correct decompression is not possible.  For this routine, we have no idea what the dictionary is,
+so the <tt>Z_NEED_DICT</tt> indication is converted to a <tt>Z_DATA_ERROR</tt>.
+<p>
+<tt>inflate()</tt> can also return <tt>Z_STREAM_ERROR</tt>, which should not be possible here,
+but could be checked for as noted above for <tt>def()</tt>.  <tt>Z_BUF_ERROR</tt> does not need to be
+checked for here, for the same reasons noted for <tt>def()</tt>.  <tt>Z_STREAM_END</tt> will be
+checked for later.
+<pre><b>
+            ret = inflate(&amp;strm, Z_NO_FLUSH);
+            assert(ret != Z_STREAM_ERROR);  /* state not clobbered */
+            switch (ret) {
+            case Z_NEED_DICT:
+                ret = Z_DATA_ERROR;     /* and fall through */
+            case Z_DATA_ERROR:
+            case Z_MEM_ERROR:
+                (void)inflateEnd(&amp;strm);
+                return ret;
+            }
+</b></pre>
+The output of <tt>inflate()</tt> is handled identically to that of <tt>deflate()</tt>.
+<pre><b>
+            have = CHUNK - strm.avail_out;
+            if (fwrite(out, 1, have, dest) != have || ferror(dest)) {
+                (void)inflateEnd(&amp;strm);
+                return Z_ERRNO;
+            }
+</b></pre>
+The inner <tt>do</tt>-loop ends when <tt>inflate()</tt> has no more output as indicated
+by not filling the output buffer, just as for <tt>deflate()</tt>.
+<pre><b>
+        } while (strm.avail_out == 0);
+        assert(strm.avail_in == 0);     /* all input will be used */
+</b></pre><!-- -->
+The outer <tt>do</tt>-loop ends when <tt>inflate()</tt> reports that it has reached the
+end of the input <em>zlib</em> stream, has completed the decompression and integrity
+check, and has provided all of the output.  This is indicated by the <tt>inflate()</tt>
+return value <tt>Z_STREAM_END</tt>.  The inner loop is guaranteed to leave <tt>ret</tt>
+equal to <tt>Z_STREAM_END</tt> if the last chunk of the input file read contained the end
+of the <em>zlib</em> stream.  So if the return value is not <tt>Z_STREAM_END</tt>, the
+loop continues to read more input.
+<pre><b>
+        /* done when inflate() says it's done */
+    } while (ret != Z_STREAM_END);
+</b></pre><!-- -->
+At this point, decompression successfully completed, or we broke out of the loop due to no
+more data being available from the input file.  If the last <tt>inflate()</tt> return value
+is not <tt>Z_STREAM_END</tt>, then the <em>zlib</em> stream was incomplete and a data error
+is returned.  Otherwise, we return with a happy return value.  Of course, <tt>inflateEnd()</tt>
+is called first to avoid a memory leak.
+<pre><b>
+    /* clean up and return */
+    (void)inflateEnd(&amp;strm);
+    return ret == Z_STREAM_END ? Z_OK : Z_DATA_ERROR;
+}
+</b></pre><!-- -->
+That ends the routines that directly use <em>zlib</em>.  The following routines make this
+a command-line program by running data through the above routines from <tt>stdin</tt> to
+<tt>stdout</tt>, and handling any errors reported by <tt>def()</tt> or <tt>inf()</tt>.
+<p>
+<tt>zerr()</tt> is used to interpret the possible error codes from <tt>def()</tt>
+and <tt>inf()</tt>, as detailed in their comments above, and print out an error message.
+Note that these are only a subset of the possible return values from <tt>deflate()</tt>
+and <tt>inflate()</tt>.
+<pre><b>
+/* report a zlib or i/o error */
+void zerr(int ret)
+{
+    fputs("zpipe: ", stderr);
+    switch (ret) {
+    case Z_ERRNO:
+        if (ferror(stdin))
+            fputs("error reading stdin\n", stderr);
+        if (ferror(stdout))
+            fputs("error writing stdout\n", stderr);
+        break;
+    case Z_STREAM_ERROR:
+        fputs("invalid compression level\n", stderr);
+        break;
+    case Z_DATA_ERROR:
+        fputs("invalid or incomplete deflate data\n", stderr);
+        break;
+    case Z_MEM_ERROR:
+        fputs("out of memory\n", stderr);
+        break;
+    case Z_VERSION_ERROR:
+        fputs("zlib version mismatch!\n", stderr);
+    }
+}
+</b></pre><!-- -->
+Here is the <tt>main()</tt> routine used to test <tt>def()</tt> and <tt>inf()</tt>.  The
+<tt>zpipe</tt> command is simply a compression pipe from <tt>stdin</tt> to <tt>stdout</tt>, if
+no arguments are given, or it is a decompression pipe if <tt>zpipe -d</tt> is used.  If any other
+arguments are provided, no compression or decompression is performed.  Instead a usage
+message is displayed.  Examples are <tt>zpipe < foo.txt > foo.txt.z</tt> to compress, and
+<tt>zpipe -d < foo.txt.z > foo.txt</tt> to decompress.
+<pre><b>
+/* compress or decompress from stdin to stdout */
+int main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+    int ret;
+    /* do compression if no arguments */
+    if (argc == 1) {
+        ret = def(stdin, stdout, Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION);
+        if (ret != Z_OK)
+            zerr(ret);
+        return ret;
+    }
+    /* do decompression if -d specified */
+    else if (argc == 2 &amp;&amp; strcmp(argv[1], "-d") == 0) {
+        ret = inf(stdin, stdout);
+        if (ret != Z_OK)
+            zerr(ret);
+        return ret;
+    }
+    /* otherwise, report usage */
+    else {
+        fputs("zpipe usage: zpipe [-d] &lt; source &gt; dest\n", stderr);
+        return 1;
+    }
+}
+</b></pre>
+<hr>
+<i>Copyright (c) 2004 by Mark Adler<br>Last modified 13 November 2004</i>
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