iostream and zlib

[jorma9@…]

I've successfully used (only slightly modified) classes
gzifstream and
gzofstream in SGI IRIX and GNU Linux environments.  The
code was
obtained from directory zlib-1.1.3/contrib/iostream of
http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/zlib.tar.gz .

Now it seems to me that the code won't compile with
standard iostream classes.  Has anyone made the
necessary changes to compile it ? Or, does someone know
that it won't be possible to make it work again ? Or,
is there a better solution for that need, ie. to have a
pair of classes derived from istream and ostream that
allow compression and uncompression on the fly ?

Yours,

Jorma Laaksonen

[nobody]

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I wrote a class which compiles with the standard library.
(gcc-3.0) It follows mainly the book from Langer and Kreft
Standard C++ IOStreams and Locales. It works for me 
but it could need further testing and perhaps a bit of 
optimisation. If your are interested just send an email.

Yours Peter Maunz

[jmaurer]

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I believe a facility like this is useful.  Please join the
boost mailing list, hosted on www.yahoogroups.com, and post
your suggestion there.

Jens Maurer

[Dave Abrahams]

This is probably outdated; if Jonathan Turkanis doesn't address this ticket soon it should probably be closed.

[anonymous]

the iostreams library currently supports gzip, bzip2 and zlib compression via filters which can applied to the streams.

I am not sure what this (6 year old) case is requesting which might be any different than is what exists today in 1.34.x