Clarify how gzopen() appends in zlib.h comments.

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Mark Adler 14 years ago
parent 00c836e325
commit be959acf80
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      zlib.h

@ -1201,6 +1201,13 @@ ZEXTERN gzFile ZEXPORT gzopen OF((const char *path, const char *mode));
written be appended to the file. "+" will result in an error, since reading written be appended to the file. "+" will result in an error, since reading
and writing to the same gzip file is not supported. and writing to the same gzip file is not supported.
These functions, as well as gzip, will read and decode a sequence of gzip
streams in a file. The append function of gzopen() can be used to create
such a file. (Also see gzflush() for another way to do this.) When
appending, gzopen does not test whether the file begins with a gzip stream,
nor does it look for the end of the gzip streams to begin appending. gzopen
will simply append a gzip stream to the existing file.
gzopen can be used to read a file which is not in gzip format; in this gzopen can be used to read a file which is not in gzip format; in this
case gzread will directly read from the file without decompression. case gzread will directly read from the file without decompression.

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