Question

I’m using the zlib.NET library to try and inflate files that are compressed by zlib (on a Linux box, perhaps). Here’s what I’m doing:

zlib.ZInputStream zinput =     new zlib.ZInputStream(File.Open(path, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read));  while (stopByte != (data = zinput.ReadByte())) {   // check data here }  zinput.Close(); 

The data bytes match the compressed data bytes, so I must be doing something wrong.

Answer 1

It appears I made the mistake of assuming all virtual methods were overridden, which wasn’t the case. I was using zlib.ZInputStream.ReadByte(), which is just the inherited Stream.ReadByte(), which doesn’t do any inflate.

I used zlib.ZInputStream.Read() instead, and it worked like it should.