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32 .Nd open a gzip compressed stream
37 .Fn zopen "const char *path" "const char *mode"
41 opens a gzip file whose name is the string pointed to by
43 and associates a stream with it.
44 It is a wrapper around
46 and standard stream I/O APIs.
50 have the same meaning as it does in
55 function will associate read, write, seek and close
58 after successfully opened a file with
60 so that they will be used to read or write the new stream.
62 Upon successful completion
69 is returned and the global variable
71 is set to indicate the error.
73 In addition to the errors documented for
77 function may also fail for:
80 Insufficient memory is available.
83 This implementation of
85 function first appeared in
91 function may not be portable to systems other than