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zlib

Description

zlib bindings for Chicken Scheme

zlib is a popular data compression library that uses the DEFLATE algorithm internally. It is defined in RFC 1950.

Note: if you are using a CHICKEN version < 4.8.3 and experiencing unexpected behavior with this egg, check ticket #1033.

Author

Joseph Gay

Requirements

foreigners

miscmacros

Documentation

Procedures

These bindings provide two procedures:

open-zlib-compressed-input-port #!optional INPUT-PORTprocedure

Returns an input-port.

open-zlib-compressed-output-port #!optional OUTPUT-PORTprocedure

Returns an output-port.

The first is for inflating an existing zlib stream and the second for deflating data into a new stream.

Examples

Inflating a stream:
  (with-input-from-port (open-zlib-compressed-input-port)
    read-string)
Deflating a stream:
  (with-output-to-port (open-zlib-compressed-output-port)
    (lambda ()
      (write-string (read-string))
      (close-output-port (current-output-port))))  

Notes

Source

Source code is available in the eggs repository as well as on github: https://github.com/joseph-gay/cscm-zlib

Version

0.5.1
added missing dependency to miscmacros
0.5
Initial release

License

 Copyright (C) 2011 by Joseph Gay

 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.

 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.

 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301 USA

 zlib: Copyright (C) 1995-2010 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
 see http://zlib.net/zlib_license.html

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