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26.Dd March 5, 2014
27.Dt ZOPEN 3
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm zopen
31.Nd open a gzip compressed stream
32.Sh LIBRARY
33.Lb libz
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Ft FILE *
36.Fn zopen "const char *path" "const char *mode"
37.Sh DESCRIPTION
38The
39.Fn zopen
40opens a gzip file whose name is the string pointed to by
41.Fa path
42and associates a stream with it.
43It is a wrapper around
44.Xr zlib 3
45and standard stream I/O APIs.
46.Pp
47The argument
48.Fa mode
49have the same meaning as it does in
50.Xr fopen 3 .
51.Pp
52The
53.Nm
54function will associate read, write, seek and close
55functions of
56.Xr zlib 3
57after successfully opened a file with
58.Xr funopen 3
59so that they will be used to read or write the new stream.
60.Sh RETURN VALUES
61Upon successful completion
62.Nm
63returns a
64.Tn FILE
65pointer.
66Otherwise,
67.Dv NULL
68is returned and the global variable
69.Va errno
70is set to indicate the error.
71.Sh ERRORS
72In addition to the errors documented for
73.Xr fopen 3 ,
74the
75.Nm
76function may also fail for:
77.Bl -tag -width Er
78.It Bq Er ENOMEM
79Insufficient memory is available.
80.El
81.Sh COMPATIBILITY
82This implementation of
83.Nm
84function first appeared in
85.Nx 1.6
86and
87.Fx 4.5 .
88The
89.Nm
90function may not be portable to systems other than
91.Fx .
92.Sh SEE ALSO
93.Xr fopen 3 ,
94.Xr funopen 3 ,
95.Xr zlib 3
96