Re: gzipped data files

[David Bateman]

Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:

> Since we now have all this gzip machinery in place,
> would it be easy to add gzip option to fopen()?
> That is, I would like to be able to do something like:
>
> fid = fopen("data.dat.gz","rz")   
>
> a = fscanf(fid,"%f")
>
> ...
>
> Just asking...
>
> Dmitri.

Something like that is relatively easy, as gzopen just a C file 
descriptor. If the file isn't zipped it is just treated normally...
I don't have any plans to implement it though..

D.

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