What I need to do is unzip a file, (.gz or .z), read the first line and do some stuff according to the first line read. But the C standard library doesn’t seem to offer a way to do this.
Is the a platform-independent way to do it?
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What I need to do is unzip a file, (.gz or .z), read the first line and do some stuff according to the first line read. But the C standard library doesn’t seem to offer a way to do this.
Is the a platform-independent way to do it?
Use “zlib”, the library that performs compression and decompression:
http://www.zlib.net/
It’s included in the base of all Unix distributions, and you can easily link your program against it for the windows version and ship the DLL.