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This module provides access to the zlib library. Zlib is designed to be a
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portable, free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered -- that is, not covered by
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any patents -- lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any
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computer hardware and operating system.
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The library also supports reading and writing files in gzip (.gz) format with an
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interface similar to that of IO. The gzip format is described in RFC 1952 which
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is also a wrapper around a deflate stream.
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