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36.Dd June 9, 1993
37.Dt ZOPEN 3
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm zopen
41.Nd compressed stream open function
42.Sh SYNOPSIS
43.Fd #include \*[Lt]stdio.h\*[Gt]
44.Ft FILE *
45.Fn zopen "const char *path" "const char *mode" "int bits"
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Fn zopen
49function
50opens the compressed file whose name is the string pointed to by
51.Fa path
52and associates a stream with it.
53.Pp
54The argument
55.Fa mode
56points to one of the following one-character strings:
57.Bl -tag -width indent
58.It Dq Li r
59Open compressed file for reading.
60The stream is positioned at the beginning of the file.
61.It Dq Li w
62Truncate file to zero length or create compressed file for writing.
63The stream is positioned at the beginning of the file.
64.El
65.Pp
66Any created files will have mode
67.Pf \\*q Dv S_IRUSR
68\&|
69.Dv S_IWUSR
70\&|
71.Dv S_IRGRP
72\&|
73.Dv S_IWGRP
74\&|
75.Dv S_IROTH
76\&|
77.Dv S_IWOTH Ns \\*q
78.Pq Li 0666 ,
79as modified by the process'
80umask value (see
81.Xr umask 2 ) .
82.Pp
83Files may only be read or written.
84Seek operations are not allowed.
85.Pp
86The
87.Fa bits
88argument, if non-zero, is set to the bits code limit.
89If zero, the default is 16.
90See
91.Fn compress 1
92for more information.
93.Sh RETURN VALUES
94Upon successful completion
95.Fn zopen
96returns a
97.Tn FILE
98pointer.
99Otherwise,
100.Dv NULL
101is returned and the global variable
102.Va errno
103is set to indicate the error.
104.Sh ERRORS
105.Bl -tag -width [EINVAL]
106.It Bq Er EINVAL
107The
108.Fa mode
109or
110.Fa bits
111arguments specified to
112.Fn zopen
113were invalid.
114.It Bq Er EFTYPE
115The compressed file starts with an invalid header, or the compressed
116file is compressed with more bits than can be handled.
117.El
118.Pp
119The
120.Fn zopen
121function may also fail and set
122.Va errno
123for any of the errors specified for the routines
124.Xr fopen 3
125or
126.Xr funopen 3 .
127.Sh SEE ALSO
128.Xr compress 1 ,
129.Xr fopen 3 ,
130.Xr funopen 3
131.Sh HISTORY
132The
133.Nm zopen
134function
135first appeared in
136.Bx 4.4 .
137.Sh BUGS
138The
139.Fn zopen
140function
141may not be portable to systems other than
142.Bx .
143