DEFLATE compression tools

[Christopher Bongaarts]

On 11/28/2016 8:52 AM, Tom Scavo wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer. The above thread is about decompressing a file
> in the ZLIB compressed data format (RFC 1950). Both ZLIB and GZIP (RFC
> 1952) are wrappers around DEFLATE-compressed data. I'm interested in
> the latter.
>
> For the archives, this thread shows how to obtain a DEFLATE-compressed
> data stream from a GZIP file:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27066133/how-to-create-bare-deflate-stream-from-file-in-linux

Also for the archives - if you are scripting in Perl, see 
IO::Compress::Deflate.  Python has zlib.compress(), which I *think* 
implements a bare deflate.  And Ruby has Zlib::Deflate/Zlib::ZStream.  
 From what I can tell, all of these are "built-in" to the standard 
distributions in recent versions.

One could also invoke one of these interpreters from a bash script as 
well :)

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