Re: [Q] gzip from C program

[Henrik Nordstrom]

Corne van Biljon wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> I would like to zip a file, specified by the user, from within a C
> program. Currently I use the system() command to invoke gzip. Is there a
> compression library or routenes out there somewhere, or is there a
> better way of doing this ?

Most program use system("gzip ..."), but there is a library called zlib
that implements both compression and uncompression. Documentation is in
/usr/include/zlib.h if you have it installed.

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Henrik Nordstr�m