diff --git a/Benchmark.hs b/Benchmark.hs
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Benchmark.hs
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+import qualified CZlib
+import qualified CZlib.Internal as CZlibIncremental
+import qualified PureZlib
+
+import qualified Control.Monad.ST.Lazy as CM
+import Criterion.Main
+import qualified Data.ByteString as S
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as L
+import qualified GHC.ST as GHC
+import Prelude hiding (readFile, writeFile)
+
+testCases :: [String]
+testCases =
+  [ "randtest1"
+  , "randtest2"
+  , "randtest3"
+  , "rfctest1"
+  , "rfctest2"
+  , "rfctest3"
+  , "zerotest1"
+  , "zerotest2"
+  , "zerotest3"
+  , "tor-list"
+  ]
+
+main :: IO ()
+main =
+  defaultMain
+    [ bgroup "decompression" $
+        flip fmap testCases $
+          \tc -> env (getFiles tc) $
+            \ ~(zbstr, _) ->
+              bgroup
+                tc
+                [ bgroup
+                    "normal"
+                    [ bench "pure-zlib" $ whnf PureZlib.decompress zbstr
+                    , bench "zlib" $ whnf CZlib.decompress zbstr
+                    ]
+                , bgroup
+                    "incremental"
+                    [ bench "pure-zlib" $ whnf decompressIncrementalPure zbstr
+                    , bench "zlib" $ whnf decompressIncrementalC zbstr
+                    ]
+                ]
+    ]
+ where
+  getFiles tc = do
+    zbstr <- L.readFile $ "test/test-cases/" ++ tc ++ ".z"
+    goldbstr <- L.readFile $ "test/test-cases/" ++ tc ++ ".gold"
+    pure (zbstr, goldbstr)
+
+decompressIncrementalPure :: L.ByteString -> L.ByteString
+decompressIncrementalPure input = GHC.runST $ do
+  initialState <- PureZlib.decompressIncremental
+  go initialState (L.toChunks input) []
+ where
+  go decoder ls chunks =
+    case decoder of
+      PureZlib.NeedMore f
+        | (x : rest) <- ls -> do
+          nextState <- f x
+          go nextState rest chunks
+        | otherwise -> error "ERROR: Ran out of data mid-decompression."
+      PureZlib.Chunk c m -> do
+        nextState <- m
+        go nextState ls (c : chunks)
+      PureZlib.Done | not (null ls) -> error "ERROR: Finished decompression with data left."
+      PureZlib.Done | otherwise -> return (L.fromChunks (reverse chunks))
+      PureZlib.DecompError e -> error ("ERROR: " ++ show e)
+
+decompressIncrementalC :: L.ByteString -> L.ByteString
+decompressIncrementalC input = CM.runST $ go (CZlibIncremental.decompressST CZlibIncremental.zlibFormat CZlibIncremental.defaultDecompressParams) (L.toChunks input) []
+ where
+  go decoder ls chunks = case decoder of
+    CZlibIncremental.DecompressInputRequired f
+      | (x : rest) <- ls -> do
+        next <- f x
+        go next rest chunks
+      | otherwise -> error "ERROR: Ran out of data mid-decompression."
+    CZlibIncremental.DecompressOutputAvailable c kont -> do
+      next <- kont
+      go next ls (c : chunks)
+    CZlibIncremental.DecompressStreamEnd leftovers
+      | not (S.null leftovers) -> error "ERROR: Finished decompression with data left."
+      | otherwise -> pure $ L.fromChunks $ reverse chunks
+    CZlibIncremental.DecompressStreamError e -> error ("ERROR: " ++ show e)
diff --git a/Deflate.hs b/Deflate.hs
--- a/Deflate.hs
+++ b/Deflate.hs
@@ -1,19 +1,48 @@
-import Codec.Compression.Zlib(decompress)
-import Data.ByteString.Lazy(readFile, writeFile)
-import Data.List(isSuffixOf)
+{-# LANGUAGE RankNTypes #-}
+
+import Codec.Compression.Zlib (ZlibDecoder (..), decompressIncremental)
+import Control.Monad (unless)
+import qualified Data.ByteString as S
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as L
+import Data.List (isSuffixOf)
+import GHC.IO (stToIO)
+import GHC.Prim (RealWorld)
+import GHC.ST (ST)
+import System.Environment (getArgs)
+import System.IO (Handle, IOMode (..), hClose, openFile)
 import Prelude hiding (readFile, writeFile)
-import System.Environment
 
 main :: IO ()
-main =
-  do args <- getArgs
-     case args of
-       [ifile] ->
-         if ".z" `isSuffixOf` ifile
-           then do bstr <- readFile ifile
-                   case decompress bstr of
-                     Nothing -> putStrLn "Decompression failure."
-                     Just o  -> writeFile (take (length ifile - 2) ifile) o
-           else putStrLn "Unexpected file name."
-       _ ->
-         putStrLn "USAGE: deflate [filename]"
+main = do
+  args <- getArgs
+  case args of
+    [ifile] ->
+      if ".z" `isSuffixOf` ifile
+        then do
+          bstr <- L.readFile ifile
+          let outname = take (length ifile - 2) ifile
+          hndl <- openFile outname WriteMode
+          runDecompression hndl (L.toChunks bstr) decompressIncremental
+        else putStrLn "Unexpected file name."
+    _ ->
+      putStrLn "USAGE: deflate [filename]"
+
+runDecompression :: Handle -> [S.ByteString] -> ST RealWorld (ZlibDecoder RealWorld) -> IO ()
+runDecompression hndl ls decoder = do
+  nextState <- stToIO decoder
+  case nextState of
+    Done -> do
+      unless (null ls) $
+        putStrLn "WARNING: Finished decompression with data left."
+      hClose hndl
+    DecompError e -> do
+      putStrLn ("ERROR: " ++ show e)
+      hClose hndl
+    NeedMore f
+      | (x : rest) <- ls -> runDecompression hndl rest (f x)
+      | otherwise -> do
+        putStrLn "ERROR: Ran out of data mid-decompression."
+        hClose hndl
+    Chunk c m -> do
+      S.hPut hndl c
+      runDecompression hndl ls m
diff --git a/Setup.hs b/Setup.hs
--- a/Setup.hs
+++ b/Setup.hs
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 import Distribution.Simple
+
 main = defaultMain
diff --git a/pure-zlib.cabal b/pure-zlib.cabal
--- a/pure-zlib.cabal
+++ b/pure-zlib.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+cabal-version:       2.0
 name:                pure-zlib
-version:             0.4
+version:             0.8.0
 synopsis:            A Haskell-only implementation of zlib / DEFLATE
 homepage:            http://github.com/GaloisInc/pure-zlib
 license:             BSD3
@@ -8,21 +9,34 @@
 maintainer:          awick@galois.com
 category:            Codec
 build-type:          Simple
-cabal-version:       >=1.10
 description:         A Haskell-only implementation of the zlib / DEFLATE
                      protocol. Currently only implements the decompression
                      algorithm.
+extra-source-files: test/test-cases/*.z,
+                    test/test-cases/*.gold
+tested-with:
+  GHC==8.0.2,
+  GHC==8.2.2,
+  GHC==8.4.4,
+  GHC==8.6.5,
+  GHC==8.8.4,
+  GHC==8.10.4
 
 library
   default-language:   Haskell2010
   ghc-options:        -Wall
   hs-source-dirs:     src
   build-depends:
-                      base                       >= 4.7   && < 5.0,
-                      bytestring                 >= 0.10  && < 0.11,
-                      containers                 >= 0.5   && < 0.7,
-                      fingertree                 >= 0.1   && < 0.3,
-                      monadLib                   >= 3.7   && < 3.9
+                      array              >= 0.4   && < 0.9,
+                      base               >= 4.6   && < 5.0,
+                      base-compat        >= 0.9.1 && < 0.12,
+                      bytestring         >= 0.10  && < 0.11,
+                      bytestring-builder >= 0.10  && < 0.11,
+                      containers         >= 0.5   && < 0.7,
+                      vector,
+                      primitive
+  if !impl(ghc >= 8.0)
+    build-depends: semigroups == 0.18.*
   exposed-modules:
                       Codec.Compression.Zlib,
                       Codec.Compression.Zlib.Adler32,
@@ -32,6 +46,8 @@
                       Codec.Compression.Zlib.OutputWindow
   default-extensions:
                       BangPatterns,
+                      DeriveDataTypeable,
+                      GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving,
                       MultiParamTypeClasses,
                       MultiWayIf
 
@@ -40,9 +56,11 @@
   main-is:            Deflate.hs
   ghc-options:        -Wall
   build-depends:
-                      base                       >= 4.7   && < 5.0,
-                      bytestring                 >= 0.10  && < 0.11,
-                      pure-zlib                  >= 0.3   && < 0.5
+                      base        >= 4.6   && < 5.0,
+                      base-compat >= 0.9.1 && < 0.12,
+                      bytestring  >= 0.10  && < 0.11,
+                      ghc-prim,
+                      pure-zlib
 
 test-suite test-zlib
   type:               exitcode-stdio-1.0
@@ -52,14 +70,34 @@
   default-language:   Haskell2010
   ghc-options:        -fno-warn-orphans
   build-depends:
-                      base                       >= 4.7   && < 5.0,
-                      bytestring                 >= 0.10  && < 0.11,
-                      pure-zlib                  >= 0.3   && < 1.1,
-                      HUnit                      >= 1.2   && < 1.4,
-                      QuickCheck                 >= 2.7   && < 2.9,
-                      test-framework             >= 0.8   && < 0.10,
-                      test-framework-hunit       >= 0.3   && < 0.5,
-                      test-framework-quickcheck2 >= 0.3   && < 0.5
+                      base             >= 4.6      && < 5.0,
+                      base-compat      >= 0.9.1    && < 0.12,
+                      bytestring       >= 0.10     && < 0.11,
+                      filepath         >= 1.4.1    && < 1.6,
+                      HUnit            >= 1.2      && < 1.7,
+                      QuickCheck       >= 2.7      && < 2.14,
+                      pure-zlib,
+                      tasty            >= 0.11.0.4 && < 1.3,
+                      tasty-hunit      >= 0.9.2    && < 0.11,
+                      tasty-quickcheck >= 0.8.4    && < 0.11
+
+benchmark bench-zlib
+  type:               exitcode-stdio-1.0
+  main-is:            Benchmark.hs
+  default-language:   Haskell2010
+  ghc-options:        -Wall
+  build-depends:
+                      base        >= 4.6   && < 5.0,
+                      base-compat >= 0.9.1 && < 0.12,
+                      bytestring  >= 0.10  && < 0.11,
+                      criterion   >= 1.5,  
+                      pure-zlib,
+                      zlib,
+                      time        >= 1.4.2 && < 1.11
+  mixins:
+    pure-zlib (Codec.Compression.Zlib as PureZlib),
+    zlib (Codec.Compression.Zlib as CZlib),
+    zlib (Codec.Compression.Zlib.Internal as CZlib.Internal)
 
 source-repository head
   type: git
diff --git a/src/Codec/Compression/Zlib.hs b/src/Codec/Compression/Zlib.hs
--- a/src/Codec/Compression/Zlib.hs
+++ b/src/Codec/Compression/Zlib.hs
@@ -1,25 +1,69 @@
 {-# LANGUAGE MultiWayIf #-}
-module Codec.Compression.Zlib(
-         decompress
-       )
- where
 
-import Codec.Compression.Zlib.Deflate
-import Codec.Compression.Zlib.Monad
-import Data.Bits
-import Data.ByteString.Lazy(ByteString)
-import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as BS
+module Codec.Compression.Zlib (
+  DecompressionError (..),
+  ZlibDecoder (NeedMore, Chunk, Done, DecompError),
+  decompress,
+  decompressIncremental,
+) where
 
-decompress :: ByteString -> Maybe ByteString
-decompress ifile =
-  case BS.uncons ifile of
-    Nothing -> error "Could not read CMF."
-    Just (cmf, rest) ->
-     case BS.uncons rest of
-       Nothing -> error "Could not read FLG."
-       Just (_, rest') ->
-         let cm         = cmf .&. 0x0F
-             cinfo      = cmf `shiftR` 4
-         in if| cm    /= 8 -> error "Non-DEFLATE compression method."
-              | cinfo >  7 -> error "Window size too big."
-              | otherwise  -> runDeflateM inflate rest'
+import Codec.Compression.Zlib.Deflate (inflate)
+import Codec.Compression.Zlib.Monad (
+  DecompressionError (..),
+  DeflateM,
+  ZlibDecoder (..),
+  nextByte,
+  raise,
+  runDeflateM,
+ )
+import Control.Monad (replicateM_, unless, when)
+import Data.Bits (shiftL, shiftR, testBit, (.&.), (.|.))
+import qualified Data.ByteString as S
+import Data.ByteString.Builder (Builder, byteString, toLazyByteString)
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as L
+import Data.Word (Word16)
+import GHC.ST (ST, runST)
+import Prelude.Compat
+import Prelude ()
+
+decompressIncremental :: ST s (ZlibDecoder s)
+decompressIncremental = runDeflateM inflateWithHeaders
+
+decompress :: L.ByteString -> Either DecompressionError L.ByteString
+decompress ifile = runST $ do
+  base <- decompressIncremental
+  run base (L.toChunks ifile) mempty
+ where
+  run :: ZlibDecoder s -> [S.ByteString] -> Builder -> ST s (Either DecompressionError L.ByteString)
+  run (NeedMore _) [] _ =
+    return (Left (DecompressionError "Ran out of data mid-decompression 2."))
+  run (NeedMore f) (first : rest) acc = do
+    nextState <- f first
+    run nextState rest acc
+  run (Chunk c m) ls acc = do
+    nextState <- m
+    run nextState ls (acc <> byteString c)
+  run Done [] acc =
+    return (Right (toLazyByteString acc))
+  run Done (_ : _) _ =
+    return (Left (DecompressionError "Finished with data remaining."))
+  run (DecompError e) _ _ =
+    return (Left e)
+
+inflateWithHeaders :: DeflateM s ()
+inflateWithHeaders = do
+  cmf <- nextByte
+  flg <- nextByte
+  let both = fromIntegral cmf `shiftL` 8 .|. fromIntegral flg
+      cm = cmf .&. 0x0f
+      cinfo = cmf `shiftR` 4
+      fdict = testBit flg 5
+  --       flevel = flg `shiftR` 6
+  unless ((both :: Word16) `mod` 31 == 0) $
+    raise (HeaderError "Header checksum failed")
+  unless (cm == 8) $
+    raise (HeaderError ("Bad compression method: " ++ show cm))
+  unless (cinfo <= 7) $
+    raise (HeaderError ("Window size too big: " ++ show cinfo))
+  when fdict $ replicateM_ 4 nextByte -- just skip them for now (FIXME)
+  inflate
diff --git a/src/Codec/Compression/Zlib/Adler32.hs b/src/Codec/Compression/Zlib/Adler32.hs
--- a/src/Codec/Compression/Zlib/Adler32.hs
+++ b/src/Codec/Compression/Zlib/Adler32.hs
@@ -1,34 +1,57 @@
-module Codec.Compression.Zlib.Adler32(
-         AdlerState
-       , initialAdlerState
-       , advanceAdler
-       , finalizeAdler
-       )
- where
+{-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE MagicHash #-}
 
-import Data.Bits
-import Data.Word
+module Codec.Compression.Zlib.Adler32 (
+  AdlerState,
+  initialAdlerState,
+  advanceAdler,
+  advanceAdlerBlock,
+  finalizeAdler,
+) where
 
-data AdlerState = AdlerState { adlerA :: !Word16, adlerB :: !Word16 }
+import Data.Bits (shiftL, (.|.))
+import qualified Data.ByteString as S
+import GHC.Exts (Word#, plusWord#, remWord#)
+import GHC.Word (Word32 (..), Word8 (..))
 
+data AdlerState = AdlerState {_adlerA :: Word#, _adlerB :: Word#}
+
 initialAdlerState :: AdlerState
-initialAdlerState = AdlerState 1 0
+initialAdlerState = AdlerState 1## 0##
 
-adlerAdd :: (Integral a, Integral b) => a -> b -> Word16
-adlerAdd x y = fromIntegral ((x32 + y32) `mod` 65521)
+advanceAdler :: AdlerState -> Word8 -> AdlerState
+advanceAdler (AdlerState a b) (W8# v) = AdlerState a' b'
  where
-  x32, y32 :: Word32
-  x32 = fromIntegral x
-  y32 = fromIntegral y
+  a' = (a `plusWord#` v) `remWord#` 65521##
+  b' = (b `plusWord#` a') `remWord#` 65521##
+{-# INLINE advanceAdler #-}
 
-advanceAdler :: AdlerState -> Word8 -> AdlerState
-advanceAdler state b = AdlerState a' b'
+advanceNoMod :: AdlerState -> Word8 -> AdlerState
+advanceNoMod (AdlerState a b) (W8# v) = AdlerState a' b'
  where
-  a' = adlerAdd (adlerA state) b
-  b' = adlerAdd (adlerB state) a'
+  a' = a `plusWord#` v
+  b' = b `plusWord#` a'
+{-# INLINE advanceNoMod #-}
 
-finalizeAdler :: AdlerState -> Word32
-finalizeAdler state = ((fromIntegral (adlerB state)) `shiftL` 16)
-                   .|.  fromIntegral (adlerA state)
+-- The block must be less than 5552 bytes long in this case
+advanceAdlerLimited :: AdlerState -> S.ByteString -> AdlerState
+advanceAdlerLimited !state !bl = AdlerState stateA' stateB'
+ where
+  !(AdlerState stateA stateB) = S.foldl' advanceNoMod state bl
+  stateA' = stateA `remWord#` 65521##
+  stateB' = stateB `remWord#` 65521##
 
+advanceAdlerBlock :: AdlerState -> S.ByteString -> AdlerState
+advanceAdlerBlock !state !bl
+  | S.length bl == 0 = state
+  | S.length bl == 1 = advanceAdler state (S.head bl)
+  | S.length bl < 5552 = advanceAdlerLimited state bl
+  | otherwise = advanceAdlerBlock (advanceAdlerBlock state first5551) rest
+ where
+  (!first5551, !rest) = S.splitAt 5551 bl
 
+finalizeAdler :: AdlerState -> Word32
+finalizeAdler (AdlerState a b) = high .|. low
+ where
+  high = (W32# b) `shiftL` 16
+  low = W32# a
diff --git a/src/Codec/Compression/Zlib/Deflate.hs b/src/Codec/Compression/Zlib/Deflate.hs
--- a/src/Codec/Compression/Zlib/Deflate.hs
+++ b/src/Codec/Compression/Zlib/Deflate.hs
@@ -1,242 +1,292 @@
 {-# LANGUAGE MultiWayIf #-}
-module Codec.Compression.Zlib.Deflate(
-         inflate
-       , computeCodeValues
-       )
- where
 
-import Codec.Compression.Zlib.HuffmanTree
-import Codec.Compression.Zlib.Monad
-import Control.Monad
-import Data.Bits
-import Data.ByteString.Lazy(ByteString)
-import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as BS
-import Data.Int
-import Data.List
-import Data.Map.Strict(Map)
-import qualified Data.Map.Strict as Map
-import Data.Word
+module Codec.Compression.Zlib.Deflate (
+  inflate,
+  computeCodeValues,
+) where
 
-inflate :: DeflateM (Maybe ByteString)
-inflate =
-  do isFinal <- inflateBlock
-     if isFinal
-        then do advanceToByte
-                rest     <- readRest
-                ourAdler <- finalAdler
-                result   <- finalOutput
-                let theirAdler = BS.foldl shiftAdd 0 rest
-                if | BS.length rest /= 4    -> return Nothing
-                   | theirAdler /= ourAdler -> return Nothing
-                   | otherwise              -> return (Just result)
-        else inflate
- where shiftAdd x y = (x `shiftL` 8) .|. fromIntegral y
+import Codec.Compression.Zlib.HuffmanTree (
+  HuffmanTree,
+  createHuffmanTree,
+ )
+import Codec.Compression.Zlib.Monad (
+  DecompressionError (..),
+  DeflateM,
+  advanceToByte,
+  emitBlock,
+  emitByte,
+  emitPastChunk,
+  finalAdler,
+  finalize,
+  moveWindow,
+  nextBits,
+  nextBlock,
+  nextCode,
+  nextWord16,
+  nextWord32,
+  raise,
+ )
+import Control.Monad (replicateM, unless)
+import Data.Array (Array, array, (!))
+import Data.Bits (complement, shiftL)
+import Data.Int (Int64)
+import Data.IntMap.Strict (IntMap)
+import qualified Data.IntMap.Strict as Map
+import Data.List (sortBy)
+import Data.Word (Word8)
+import Numeric (showHex)
 
-inflateBlock :: DeflateM Bool
-inflateBlock =
-  do bfinal <- nextBit
-     btype  <- nextBits 2
-     case btype :: Word8 of
-       0 -> -- no compression
-         do advanceToByte
-            len  <- nextWord16
-            nlen <- nextWord16
-            unless (len == complement nlen) $
-              fail "Len/nlen mismatch in uncompressed block."
-            emitBlock =<< nextBlock len
-            return bfinal
-       1 -> -- compressed with fixed Huffman codes
-         do runInflate fixedLitTree fixedDistanceTree
-            return bfinal
-       2 -> -- compressed with dynamic Huffman codes
-         do hlit  <- (257+) `fmap` nextBits 5
-            hdist <- (1+)   `fmap` nextBits 5
-            hclen <- (4+)   `fmap` nextBits 4
-            codeLens <- replicateM hclen (nextBits 3)
-            let codeLens' = zip codeLengthOrder codeLens
-                codeTree  = computeHuffmanTree codeLens'
-            lens <- getCodeLengths codeTree 0 (hlit + hdist) 0 Map.empty
-            -- We do this as a big chunk and then split it up because the spec
-            -- allows repeat codes to cross the hlit / hdist boundary. So now we
-            -- need to pull off the hdist items.
-            let (litlens, offdistlens) =
-                    Map.partitionWithKey (\ k _ -> k < hlit) lens
-                distlens = Map.mapKeys (\ k -> k - hlit) offdistlens
-                litTree  = computeHuffmanTree (Map.toList litlens)
-                distTree = computeHuffmanTree (Map.toList distlens)
-            runInflate litTree distTree
-            return bfinal
-       _ -> -- reserved / error
-         error ("Unacceptable BTYPE: " ++ show btype)
+inflate :: DeflateM s ()
+inflate = do
+  fixedLit <- buildFixedLitTree
+  fixedDist <- buildFixedDistanceTree
+  go fixedLit fixedDist
  where
-  runInflate :: HuffmanTree Int -> HuffmanTree Int -> DeflateM ()
-  runInflate litTree distTree =
-    do code <- nextCode litTree
-       if | code <  256 -> do emitByte (fromIntegral code)
-                              runInflate litTree distTree
-          | code == 256 -> return ()
-          | code > 256  -> do len      <- getLength code
-                              distCode <- nextCode distTree
-                              dist     <- getDistance distCode
-                              emitPastChunk dist len
-                              runInflate litTree distTree
+  go fixedLit fixedDist = do
+    isFinal <- inflateBlock fixedLit fixedDist
+    moveWindow
+    if isFinal
+      then checkChecksum >> finalize
+      else go fixedLit fixedDist
+  --
+  checkChecksum = do
+    advanceToByte
+    ourAdler <- finalAdler
+    theirAdler <- nextWord32
+    unless (theirAdler == ourAdler) $
+      raise
+        ( ChecksumError
+            ( "checksum mismatch: " ++ showHex theirAdler ""
+                ++ " != "
+                ++ showHex ourAdler ""
+            )
+        )
 
+inflateBlock :: HuffmanTree Int -> HuffmanTree Int -> DeflateM s Bool
+inflateBlock fixedLitTree fixedDistanceTree = do
+  bfinal <- (== (1 :: Word8)) `fmap` nextBits 1
+  btype <- nextBits 2
+  case btype :: Word8 of
+    0 -> do
+      -- no compression
+      advanceToByte
+      len <- nextWord16
+      nlen <- nextWord16
+      unless (len == complement nlen) $
+        raise (FormatError "Len/nlen mismatch in uncompressed block.")
+      emitBlock =<< nextBlock len
+      return bfinal
+    1 -> do
+      -- compressed with fixed Huffman codes
+      runInflate fixedLitTree fixedDistanceTree
+      return bfinal
+    2 -> do
+      -- compressed with dynamic Huffman codes
+      hlit <- (257 +) `fmap` nextBits 5
+      hdist <- (1 +) `fmap` nextBits 5
+      hclen <- (4 +) `fmap` nextBits 4
+      codeLens <- replicateM hclen (nextBits 3)
+      let codeLens' = zip codeLengthOrder codeLens
+      codeTree <- computeHuffmanTree codeLens'
+      lens <- getCodeLengths codeTree 0 (hlit + hdist) 0 Map.empty
+      -- We do this as a big chunk and then split it up because the spec
+      -- allows repeat codes to cross the hlit / hdist boundary. So now we
+      -- need to pull off the hdist items.
+      let (litlens, offdistlens) =
+            Map.partitionWithKey (\k _ -> k < hlit) lens
+          distlens = Map.mapKeys (\k -> k - hlit) offdistlens
+      litTree <- computeHuffmanTree (Map.toList litlens)
+      distTree <- computeHuffmanTree (Map.toList distlens)
+      runInflate litTree distTree
+      return bfinal
+    _ ->
+      -- reserved / error
+      raise (FormatError ("Unacceptable BTYPE: " ++ show btype))
+ where
+  runInflate :: HuffmanTree Int -> HuffmanTree Int -> DeflateM s ()
+  runInflate litTree distTree = do
+    code <- nextCode litTree
+    case compare code 256 of
+      LT -> do
+        emitByte (fromIntegral code)
+        runInflate litTree distTree
+      EQ -> return ()
+      GT -> do
+        len <- getLength code
+        distCode <- nextCode distTree
+        dist <- getDistance distCode
+        emitPastChunk dist (fromIntegral len)
+        moveWindow
+        runInflate litTree distTree
+
 -- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-getCodeLengths :: HuffmanTree Int ->
-                  Int -> Int -> Int ->
-                  Map Int Int ->
-                  DeflateM (Map Int Int)
+getCodeLengths ::
+  HuffmanTree Int ->
+  Int ->
+  Int ->
+  Int ->
+  IntMap Int ->
+  DeflateM s (IntMap Int)
 getCodeLengths tree n maxl prev acc
-  | n >= maxl   = return acc
-  | otherwise =
-    do code <- nextCode tree
-       if | code <= 15 ->
-                getCodeLengths tree (n+1) maxl code (Map.insert n code acc)
-          | code == 16 -> -- copy the previous code length 3 - 6 times
-             do num <- (3+) `fmap` nextBits 2
-                getCodeLengths tree (n+num) maxl prev (addNTimes n num prev acc)
-          | code == 17 -> -- repeat a code length of 0 for 3 - 10 times
-             do num <- (3+) `fmap` nextBits 3
-                getCodeLengths tree (n+num) maxl 0    (addNTimes n num 0 acc)
-          | code == 18 -> -- repeat a code length of 0 for 11 - 138 times
-             do num <- (11+) `fmap` nextBits 7
-                getCodeLengths tree (n+num) maxl 0    (addNTimes n num 0 acc)
+  | n >= maxl = return acc
+  | otherwise = do
+    code <- nextCode tree
+    if
+        | code <= 15 ->
+          getCodeLengths tree (n + 1) maxl code (Map.insert n code acc)
+        | code == 16 -> do
+          -- copy the previous code length 3 - 6 times
+          num <- (3 +) `fmap` nextBits 2
+          getCodeLengths tree (n + num) maxl prev (addNTimes n num prev acc)
+        | code == 17 -> do
+          -- repeat a code length of 0 for 3 - 10 times
+          num <- (3 +) `fmap` nextBits 3
+          getCodeLengths tree (n + num) maxl 0 (addNTimes n num 0 acc)
+        | code == 18 -> do
+          -- repeat a code length of 0 for 11 - 138 times
+          num <- (11 +) `fmap` nextBits 7
+          getCodeLengths tree (n + num) maxl 0 (addNTimes n num 0 acc)
+        | otherwise ->
+          raise (DecompressionError ("Unexpected code: " ++ show code))
  where
   addNTimes idx count val old =
-    let idxs = take count [idx..]
+    let idxs = take count [idx ..]
         vals = replicate count val
-    in Map.union old (Map.fromList (zip idxs vals))
+     in Map.union old (Map.fromList (zip idxs vals))
 
 -- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-getLength :: Int -> DeflateM Int64
-getLength c =
-  case Map.lookup c getLengthMap of
-    Nothing -> error ("getLength for bad code: " ++ show c)
-    Just m  -> m
+getLength :: Int -> DeflateM s Int64
+getLength c = lengthArray ! c
+{-# INLINE getLength #-}
 
-getLengthMap :: Map Int (DeflateM Int64)
-getLengthMap = Map.fromList [
-    (257, return 3)
-  , (258, return 4)
-  , (259, return 5)
-  , (260, return 6)
-  , (261, return 7)
-  , (262, return 8)
-  , (263, return 9)
-  , (264, return 10)
-  , (265, (+ 11)  `fmap` nextBits 1)
-  , (266, (+ 13)  `fmap` nextBits 1)
-  , (267, (+ 15)  `fmap` nextBits 1)
-  , (268, (+ 17)  `fmap` nextBits 1)
-  , (269, (+ 19)  `fmap` nextBits 2)
-  , (270, (+ 23)  `fmap` nextBits 2)
-  , (271, (+ 27)  `fmap` nextBits 2)
-  , (272, (+ 31)  `fmap` nextBits 2)
-  , (273, (+ 35)  `fmap` nextBits 3)
-  , (274, (+ 43)  `fmap` nextBits 3)
-  , (275, (+ 51)  `fmap` nextBits 3)
-  , (276, (+ 59)  `fmap` nextBits 3)
-  , (277, (+ 67)  `fmap` nextBits 4)
-  , (278, (+ 83)  `fmap` nextBits 4)
-  , (279, (+ 99)  `fmap` nextBits 4)
-  , (280, (+ 115) `fmap` nextBits 4)
-  , (281, (+ 131) `fmap` nextBits 5)
-  , (282, (+ 163) `fmap` nextBits 5)
-  , (283, (+ 195) `fmap` nextBits 5)
-  , (284, (+ 227) `fmap` nextBits 5)
-  , (285, return 258)
-  ]
+lengthArray :: Array Int (DeflateM s Int64)
+lengthArray =
+  array
+    (257, 285)
+    [ (257, return 3)
+    , (258, return 4)
+    , (259, return 5)
+    , (260, return 6)
+    , (261, return 7)
+    , (262, return 8)
+    , (263, return 9)
+    , (264, return 10)
+    , (265, (+ 11) `fmap` nextBits 1)
+    , (266, (+ 13) `fmap` nextBits 1)
+    , (267, (+ 15) `fmap` nextBits 1)
+    , (268, (+ 17) `fmap` nextBits 1)
+    , (269, (+ 19) `fmap` nextBits 2)
+    , (270, (+ 23) `fmap` nextBits 2)
+    , (271, (+ 27) `fmap` nextBits 2)
+    , (272, (+ 31) `fmap` nextBits 2)
+    , (273, (+ 35) `fmap` nextBits 3)
+    , (274, (+ 43) `fmap` nextBits 3)
+    , (275, (+ 51) `fmap` nextBits 3)
+    , (276, (+ 59) `fmap` nextBits 3)
+    , (277, (+ 67) `fmap` nextBits 4)
+    , (278, (+ 83) `fmap` nextBits 4)
+    , (279, (+ 99) `fmap` nextBits 4)
+    , (280, (+ 115) `fmap` nextBits 4)
+    , (281, (+ 131) `fmap` nextBits 5)
+    , (282, (+ 163) `fmap` nextBits 5)
+    , (283, (+ 195) `fmap` nextBits 5)
+    , (284, (+ 227) `fmap` nextBits 5)
+    , (285, return 258)
+    ]
 
-getDistance :: Int -> DeflateM Int
-getDistance c =
-  case Map.lookup c getDistanceMap of
-    Nothing -> error ("getDistance for bad code: " ++ show c)
-    Just m  -> m
+getDistance :: Int -> DeflateM s Int
+getDistance c = distanceArray ! c
+{-# INLINE getDistance #-}
 
-getDistanceMap :: Map Int (DeflateM Int)
-getDistanceMap = Map.fromList [
-    (0,  return 1)
-  , (1,  return 2)
-  , (2,  return 3)
-  , (3,  return 4)
-  , (4,  (+ 5)     `fmap` nextBits 1)
-  , (5,  (+ 7)     `fmap` nextBits 1)
-  , (6,  (+ 9)     `fmap` nextBits 2)
-  , (7,  (+ 13)    `fmap` nextBits 2)
-  , (8,  (+ 17)    `fmap` nextBits 3)
-  , (9,  (+ 25)    `fmap` nextBits 3)
-  , (10, (+ 33)    `fmap` nextBits 4)
-  , (11, (+ 49)    `fmap` nextBits 4)
-  , (12, (+ 65)    `fmap` nextBits 5)
-  , (13, (+ 97)    `fmap` nextBits 5)
-  , (14, (+ 129)   `fmap` nextBits 6)
-  , (15, (+ 193)   `fmap` nextBits 6)
-  , (16, (+ 257)   `fmap` nextBits 7)
-  , (17, (+ 385)   `fmap` nextBits 7)
-  , (18, (+ 513)   `fmap` nextBits 8)
-  , (19, (+ 769)   `fmap` nextBits 8)
-  , (20, (+ 1025)  `fmap` nextBits 9)
-  , (21, (+ 1537)  `fmap` nextBits 9)
-  , (22, (+ 2049)  `fmap` nextBits 10)
-  , (23, (+ 3073)  `fmap` nextBits 10)
-  , (24, (+ 4097)  `fmap` nextBits 11)
-  , (25, (+ 6145)  `fmap` nextBits 11)
-  , (26, (+ 8193)  `fmap` nextBits 12)
-  , (27, (+ 12289) `fmap` nextBits 12)
-  , (28, (+ 16385) `fmap` nextBits 13)
-  , (29, (+ 24577) `fmap` nextBits 13)
-  ]
+distanceArray :: Array Int (DeflateM s Int)
+distanceArray =
+  array
+    (0, 29)
+    [ (0, return 1)
+    , (1, return 2)
+    , (2, return 3)
+    , (3, return 4)
+    , (4, (+ 5) `fmap` nextBits 1)
+    , (5, (+ 7) `fmap` nextBits 1)
+    , (6, (+ 9) `fmap` nextBits 2)
+    , (7, (+ 13) `fmap` nextBits 2)
+    , (8, (+ 17) `fmap` nextBits 3)
+    , (9, (+ 25) `fmap` nextBits 3)
+    , (10, (+ 33) `fmap` nextBits 4)
+    , (11, (+ 49) `fmap` nextBits 4)
+    , (12, (+ 65) `fmap` nextBits 5)
+    , (13, (+ 97) `fmap` nextBits 5)
+    , (14, (+ 129) `fmap` nextBits 6)
+    , (15, (+ 193) `fmap` nextBits 6)
+    , (16, (+ 257) `fmap` nextBits 7)
+    , (17, (+ 385) `fmap` nextBits 7)
+    , (18, (+ 513) `fmap` nextBits 8)
+    , (19, (+ 769) `fmap` nextBits 8)
+    , (20, (+ 1025) `fmap` nextBits 9)
+    , (21, (+ 1537) `fmap` nextBits 9)
+    , (22, (+ 2049) `fmap` nextBits 10)
+    , (23, (+ 3073) `fmap` nextBits 10)
+    , (24, (+ 4097) `fmap` nextBits 11)
+    , (25, (+ 6145) `fmap` nextBits 11)
+    , (26, (+ 8193) `fmap` nextBits 12)
+    , (27, (+ 12289) `fmap` nextBits 12)
+    , (28, (+ 16385) `fmap` nextBits 13)
+    , (29, (+ 24577) `fmap` nextBits 13)
+    ]
 
 -- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-fixedLitTree :: HuffmanTree Int
-fixedLitTree = computeHuffmanTree
-  ([(x, 8) | x <- [0   .. 143]] ++
-   [(x, 9) | x <- [144 .. 255]] ++
-   [(x, 7) | x <- [256 .. 279]] ++
-   [(x, 8) | x <- [280 .. 287]])
+buildFixedLitTree :: DeflateM s (HuffmanTree Int)
+buildFixedLitTree =
+  computeHuffmanTree
+    ( [(x, 8) | x <- [0 .. 143]]
+      ++ [(x, 9) | x <- [144 .. 255]]
+        ++ [(x, 7) | x <- [256 .. 279]]
+        ++ [(x, 8) | x <- [280 .. 287]]
+    )
 
-fixedDistanceTree :: HuffmanTree Int
-fixedDistanceTree = computeHuffmanTree [(x,5) | x <- [0..31]]
+buildFixedDistanceTree :: DeflateM s (HuffmanTree Int)
+buildFixedDistanceTree = computeHuffmanTree [(x, 5) | x <- [0 .. 31]]
 
 -- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-computeHuffmanTree :: [(Int, Int)] -> HuffmanTree Int
-computeHuffmanTree = createHuffmanTree . computeCodeValues
+computeHuffmanTree :: [(Int, Int)] -> DeflateM s (HuffmanTree Int)
+computeHuffmanTree initialData =
+  case createHuffmanTree (computeCodeValues initialData) of
+    Left err -> raise (HuffmanTreeError err)
+    Right x -> return x
 
-computeCodeValues :: Ord a => [(a, Int)] -> [(a, Int, Int)]
-computeCodeValues vals = Map.foldrWithKey (\ v (l, c) a -> (v,l,c):a) [] codes
+computeCodeValues :: [(Int, Int)] -> [(Int, Int, Int)]
+computeCodeValues vals = Map.foldrWithKey (\v (l, c) a -> (v, l, c) : a) [] codes
  where
-  valsNo0s = filter (\ (_, b) -> (b /= 0)) vals
-  valsSort = sortBy (\ (a,_) (b,_) -> compare a b) valsNo0s
-  blCount  = foldr (\ (_,k) m -> Map.insertWith (+) k 1 m) Map.empty valsNo0s
+  valsNo0s = filter (\(_, b) -> (b /= 0)) vals
+  valsSort = sortBy (\(a, _) (b, _) -> compare a b) valsNo0s
+  blCount = foldr (\(_, k) m -> Map.insertWith (+) k 1 m) Map.empty valsNo0s
   nextcode = step2 0 1 (Map.insert 0 0 Map.empty)
-  lenTree  = Map.fromList valsSort
+  lenTree = Map.fromList valsSort
   codeTree = step3 (map fst valsSort) nextcode Map.empty
-  maxBits  = maximum (map snd valsSort)
-  codes    = Map.intersectionWith (,) lenTree codeTree
+  maxBits = maximum (map snd valsSort)
+  codes = Map.intersectionWith (,) lenTree codeTree
   --
   step2 code bits nc
     | bits > maxBits = nc
     | otherwise =
       let prevCount = Map.findWithDefault 0 (bits - 1) blCount
           code' = (code + prevCount) `shiftL` 1
-      in step2 code' (bits + 1) (Map.insert bits code' nc) 
+       in step2 code' (bits + 1) (Map.insert bits code' nc)
   --
   step3 [] _ ct = ct
-  step3 (n:rest) nc ct =
-    let len        = Map.findWithDefault 0 n lenTree
+  step3 (n : rest) nc ct =
+    let len = Map.findWithDefault 0 n lenTree
         Just ncLen = Map.lookup len nc
-        ct'        = Map.insert n ncLen ct
-        nc'        = Map.insert len (ncLen + 1) nc
-    in if len == 0
-          then step3 rest nc  ct
+        ct' = Map.insert n ncLen ct
+        nc' = Map.insert len (ncLen + 1) nc
+     in if len == 0
+          then step3 rest nc ct
           else step3 rest nc' ct'
 
 codeLengthOrder :: [Int]
 codeLengthOrder =
   [16, 17, 18, 0, 8, 7, 9, 6, 10, 5, 11, 4, 12, 3, 13, 2, 14, 1, 15]
-
-
diff --git a/src/Codec/Compression/Zlib/HuffmanTree.hs b/src/Codec/Compression/Zlib/HuffmanTree.hs
--- a/src/Codec/Compression/Zlib/HuffmanTree.hs
+++ b/src/Codec/Compression/Zlib/HuffmanTree.hs
@@ -1,48 +1,83 @@
-module Codec.Compression.Zlib.HuffmanTree(
-         HuffmanTree
-       , createHuffmanTree
-       , advanceTree
-       )
- where
+module Codec.Compression.Zlib.HuffmanTree (
+  HuffmanTree,
+  AdvanceResult (..),
+  createHuffmanTree,
+  advanceTree,
+) where
 
-import Data.Bits
+import Data.Bits (testBit)
+import Data.Word (Word8)
 
-data HuffmanTree a = HuffmanNode (HuffmanTree a) (HuffmanTree a)
-                   | HuffmanValue a
-                   | HuffmanEmpty
- deriving (Show)
+data HuffmanTree a
+  = HuffmanNode (HuffmanTree a) (HuffmanTree a)
+  | HuffmanValue a
+  | HuffmanEmpty
+  deriving (Show)
 
+data AdvanceResult a
+  = AdvanceError String
+  | NewTree (HuffmanTree a)
+  | Result a
+
 emptyHuffmanTree :: HuffmanTree a
 emptyHuffmanTree = HuffmanEmpty
 
-createHuffmanTree :: Show a => [(a, Int, Int)] -> HuffmanTree a
-createHuffmanTree = foldr addHuffmanNode' emptyHuffmanTree
- where addHuffmanNode' (a, b, c) = addHuffmanNode a b c
-
-addHuffmanNode :: Show a => a -> Int -> Int -> HuffmanTree a -> HuffmanTree a
-addHuffmanNode val 0   _    (HuffmanNode _ _) =
-  error ("Tried to add where the leaf is a node: " ++ show val)
-addHuffmanNode _   0   _    (HuffmanValue _) =
-  error "Two values point to the same place!"
-addHuffmanNode val 0   _    HuffmanEmpty =
-  HuffmanValue val
-addHuffmanNode val len code (HuffmanNode l r)
-  | testBit code (len - 1) = HuffmanNode l (addHuffmanNode val (len - 1) code r)
-  | otherwise              = HuffmanNode (addHuffmanNode val (len - 1) code l) r
-addHuffmanNode _   _   _    (HuffmanValue _) =
-  error "HuffmanValue hit while inserting a value!"
-addHuffmanNode val len code HuffmanEmpty =
-  let newNode = addHuffmanNode val (len - 1) code HuffmanEmpty
-  in if testBit code (len - 1)
-        then HuffmanNode HuffmanEmpty newNode
-        else HuffmanNode newNode      HuffmanEmpty
+createHuffmanTree ::
+  Show a =>
+  [(a, Int, Int)] ->
+  Either String (HuffmanTree a)
+createHuffmanTree = foldr addHuffmanNode' (Right emptyHuffmanTree)
+ where
+  addHuffmanNode' (a, b, c) acc =
+    case acc of
+      Left err -> Left err
+      Right tree -> addHuffmanNode a b c tree
 
-advanceTree :: Bool -> HuffmanTree a -> Either (HuffmanTree a) a
-advanceTree _ HuffmanEmpty     = error "Tried to advance empty tree!"
-advanceTree _ (HuffmanValue _) = error "Tried to advance empty value!"
-advanceTree x (HuffmanNode l r) =
-  case if x then r else l of
-    HuffmanEmpty   -> error "Advanced to empty tree!"
-    HuffmanValue y -> Right y
-    t              -> Left t
+addHuffmanNode ::
+  Show a =>
+  a ->
+  Int ->
+  Int ->
+  HuffmanTree a ->
+  Either String (HuffmanTree a)
+addHuffmanNode val len code node =
+  case node of
+    HuffmanEmpty
+      | len == 0 ->
+        Right (HuffmanValue val)
+    HuffmanEmpty ->
+      case addHuffmanNode val (len - 1) code HuffmanEmpty of
+        Left err -> Left err
+        Right newNode
+          | testBit code (len - 1) -> Right (HuffmanNode HuffmanEmpty newNode)
+          | otherwise -> Right (HuffmanNode newNode HuffmanEmpty)
+    --
+    HuffmanValue _
+      | len == 0 ->
+        Left "Two values point to the same place!"
+    HuffmanValue _ ->
+      Left "HuffmanValue hit while inserting a value!"
+    --
+    HuffmanNode _ _
+      | len == 0 ->
+        Left ("Tried to add where the leaf is a node: " ++ show val)
+    HuffmanNode l r | testBit code (len - 1) ->
+      case addHuffmanNode val (len - 1) code r of
+        Left err -> Left err
+        Right r' -> Right (HuffmanNode l r')
+    HuffmanNode l r ->
+      case addHuffmanNode val (len - 1) code l of
+        Left err -> Left err
+        Right l' -> Right (HuffmanNode l' r)
 
+advanceTree :: Word8 -> HuffmanTree a -> AdvanceResult a
+advanceTree x node =
+  case node of
+    HuffmanEmpty -> AdvanceError "Tried to advance empty tree!"
+    HuffmanValue _ -> AdvanceError "Tried to advance value!"
+    HuffmanNode l r ->
+      case if (x == 1) then r else l of
+        HuffmanEmpty -> AdvanceError "Advanced to empty tree!"
+        HuffmanValue y -> Result y
+        t -> NewTree t
+{-# INLINE advanceTree #-}
diff --git a/src/Codec/Compression/Zlib/Monad.hs b/src/Codec/Compression/Zlib/Monad.hs
--- a/src/Codec/Compression/Zlib/Monad.hs
+++ b/src/Codec/Compression/Zlib/Monad.hs
@@ -1,163 +1,358 @@
-module Codec.Compression.Zlib.Monad(
-         DeflateM
-       , runDeflateM
-         -- * Getting data from the input stream.
-       , nextBit
-       , nextBits
-       , nextByte
-       , nextWord16
-       , nextBlock
-       , nextCode
-       , readRest
-         -- * Aligning
-       , advanceToByte
-         -- * Emitting data
-       , emitByte
-       , emitBlock
-       , emitPastChunk
-         -- * Getting output
-       , finalAdler
-       , finalOutput
-       )
- where
+{-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE DeriveDataTypeable #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE MultiWayIf #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE Rank2Types #-}
 
-import Codec.Compression.Zlib.Adler32
-import Codec.Compression.Zlib.HuffmanTree
-import Codec.Compression.Zlib.OutputWindow
-import Control.Monad
-import Data.Bits
-import Data.ByteString.Lazy(ByteString)
-import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as BS
-import Data.Int
-import Data.Word
-import MonadLib
-import MonadLib.Monads
+module Codec.Compression.Zlib.Monad (
+  DeflateM,
+  runDeflateM,
+  ZlibDecoder (..),
+  raise,
+  DecompressionError (..),
 
-data DecompressState = DecompressState {
-       dcsNextBitNo     :: !Int
-     , dcsCurByte       :: !Word8
-     , dcsAdler32       :: !AdlerState
-     , dcsInput         :: !ByteString
-     , dcsOutput        :: !OutputWindow
-     }
+  -- * Getting data from the input stream.
+  nextBits,
+  nextByte,
+  nextWord16,
+  nextWord32,
+  nextBlock,
+  nextCode,
 
-type DeflateM = State DecompressState
+  -- * Aligning
+  advanceToByte,
 
-initialState :: ByteString -> DecompressState
-initialState bstr =
-  case BS.uncons bstr of
-    Nothing       -> error "No compressed data to inflate."
-    Just (f,rest) -> DecompressState 0 f initialAdlerState rest emptyWindow
+  -- * Emitting data into the output window
+  emitByte,
+  emitBlock,
+  emitPastChunk,
 
-runDeflateM :: Show a => DeflateM a -> ByteString -> a
-runDeflateM m i = result
-  where (result, _) = runState (initialState i) m
+  -- * Getting and publishing output
+  finalAdler,
+  moveWindow,
+  finalize,
+) where
 
+import Codec.Compression.Zlib.Adler32 (
+  AdlerState,
+  advanceAdler,
+  advanceAdlerBlock,
+  finalizeAdler,
+  initialAdlerState,
+ )
+import Codec.Compression.Zlib.HuffmanTree (
+  AdvanceResult (..),
+  HuffmanTree,
+  advanceTree,
+ )
+import Codec.Compression.Zlib.OutputWindow (
+  OutputWindow,
+  addByte,
+  addChunk,
+  addOldChunk,
+  emitExcess,
+  emptyWindow,
+  finalizeWindow,
+ )
+import Control.Exception (Exception)
+import Data.Bits (Bits (..))
+import qualified Data.ByteString as S
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as L
+import Data.Int (Int64)
+import Data.Typeable (Typeable)
+import Data.Word (Word16, Word32, Word8)
+import GHC.ST (ST)
+import Prelude.Compat
+import Prelude ()
+
+data DecompressionState s = DecompressionState
+  { dcsNextBitNo :: !Int
+  , dcsCurByte :: !Word8
+  , dcsAdler32 :: !AdlerState
+  , dcsInput :: !S.ByteString
+  , dcsOutput :: !(OutputWindow s)
+  }
+
+instance Show (DecompressionState s) where
+  show dcs =
+    "DecompressionState<nextBit=" ++ show (dcsNextBitNo dcs) ++ ","
+      ++ "curByte="
+      ++ show (dcsCurByte dcs)
+      ++ ",inputLen="
+      ++ show (S.length (dcsInput dcs))
+      ++ ">"
+
 -- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-nextBit :: DeflateM Bool
-nextBit =
-  do dcs <- get
-     let v = dcsCurByte dcs `testBit` dcsNextBitNo dcs
-     set $ advanceBit dcs
-     return v
- where
-  advanceBit dcs
-    | dcsNextBitNo dcs == 7 =
-        case BS.uncons (dcsInput dcs) of
-          Nothing ->
-            error "Bit required, but no bits available!"
-          Just (nextb, rest) ->
-            dcs{ dcsNextBitNo = 0, dcsCurByte = nextb, dcsInput = rest }
-    | otherwise             =
-        dcs{ dcsNextBitNo = dcsNextBitNo dcs + 1 }
+data DecompressionError
+  = HuffmanTreeError String
+  | FormatError String
+  | DecompressionError String
+  | HeaderError String
+  | ChecksumError String
+  deriving (Typeable, Eq)
 
-nextBits :: (Num a, Bits a) => Int -> DeflateM a
-nextBits x
- | x < 1     = error "nextBits called with x < 1"
- | x == 1    = toNum `fmap` nextBit
- | otherwise = do cur  <- toNum `fmap` nextBit
-                  rest <- nextBits (x - 1)
-                  return ((rest `shiftL` 1) .|. cur)
+instance Show DecompressionError where
+  show x =
+    case x of
+      HuffmanTreeError s -> "Huffman tree manipulation error: " ++ s
+      FormatError s -> "Block format error: " ++ s
+      DecompressionError s -> "Decompression error: " ++ s
+      HeaderError s -> "Header error: " ++ s
+      ChecksumError s -> "Checksum error: " ++ s
+
+instance Exception DecompressionError
+
+-- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+newtype DeflateM s a = DeflateM
+  { unDeflateM ::
+      DecompressionState s ->
+      (DecompressionState s -> a -> ST s (ZlibDecoder s)) ->
+      ST s (ZlibDecoder s)
+  }
+
+instance Applicative (DeflateM s) where
+  pure x = DeflateM (\s k -> k s x)
+
+  f <*> x = DeflateM $ \s1 k ->
+    unDeflateM f s1 $ \s2 g ->
+      unDeflateM x s2 $ \s3 y -> k s3 (g y)
+
+  m *> n = DeflateM $ \s1 k ->
+    unDeflateM m s1 $ \s2 _ -> unDeflateM n s2 k
+
+  {-# INLINE pure #-}
+  {-# INLINE (<*>) #-}
+  {-# INLINE (*>) #-}
+
+instance Functor (DeflateM s) where
+  fmap f m = DeflateM (\s k -> unDeflateM m s (\s' a -> k s' (f a)))
+  {-# INLINE fmap #-}
+
+instance Monad (DeflateM s) where
+  {-# INLINE return #-}
+  return = pure
+
+  {-# INLINE (>>=) #-}
+  m >>= f = DeflateM $ \s1 k ->
+    unDeflateM m s1 $ \s2 a -> unDeflateM (f a) s2 k
+
+  (>>) = (*>)
+  {-# INLINE (>>) #-}
+
+get :: DeflateM s (DecompressionState s)
+get = DeflateM (\s k -> k s s)
+{-# INLINE get #-}
+
+set :: DecompressionState s -> DeflateM s ()
+set !s = DeflateM (\_ k -> k s ())
+{-# INLINE set #-}
+
+raise :: DecompressionError -> DeflateM s a
+raise e = DeflateM (\_ _ -> return (DecompError e))
+{-# INLINE raise #-}
+
+liftST :: ST s a -> DeflateM s a
+liftST action = DeflateM $ \s k -> do
+  res <- action
+  k s res
+
+-- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+data ZlibDecoder s
+  = NeedMore (S.ByteString -> ST s (ZlibDecoder s))
+  | Chunk S.ByteString (ST s (ZlibDecoder s))
+  | Done
+  | DecompError DecompressionError
+
+runDeflateM :: DeflateM s () -> ST s (ZlibDecoder s)
+runDeflateM m = do
+  window <- emptyWindow
+  let initialState =
+        DecompressionState
+          { dcsNextBitNo = 8
+          , dcsCurByte = 0
+          , dcsAdler32 = initialAdlerState
+          , dcsInput = S.empty
+          , dcsOutput = window
+          }
+  unDeflateM m initialState (\_ _ -> return Done)
+{-# INLINE runDeflateM #-}
+
+-- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+getNextChunk :: DeflateM s ()
+getNextChunk = DeflateM $ \st k -> return (NeedMore (loadChunk st k))
  where
-  toNum False = 0
-  toNum True  = 1
+  loadChunk ::
+    DecompressionState s ->
+    (DecompressionState s -> () -> ST s (ZlibDecoder s)) ->
+    S.ByteString ->
+    ST s (ZlibDecoder s)
+  loadChunk st k bstr =
+    case S.uncons bstr of
+      Nothing -> return (NeedMore (loadChunk st k))
+      Just (nextb, rest) ->
+        k st{dcsNextBitNo = 0, dcsCurByte = nextb, dcsInput = rest} ()
 
-nextByte :: DeflateM Word8
-nextByte =
-  do dcs <- get
-     case BS.uncons (dcsInput dcs) of
-       _ | dcsNextBitNo dcs /= 0 ->
-            nextBits 8
-       Nothing ->
-         error "nextByte called with no more data."
-       Just (nextb, rest) ->
-          do set dcs{ dcsNextBitNo = 0, dcsCurByte = nextb, dcsInput = rest }
-             return (dcsCurByte dcs)
+{-# SPECIALIZE nextBits :: Int -> DeflateM s Word8 #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE nextBits :: Int -> DeflateM s Int #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE nextBits :: Int -> DeflateM s Int64 #-}
+{-# INLINE nextBits #-}
+nextBits :: (Num a, Bits a) => Int -> DeflateM s a
+nextBits x = nextBits' x 0 0
 
-nextWord16 :: DeflateM Word16
-nextWord16 =
-  do high <- fromIntegral `fmap` nextByte
-     low  <- fromIntegral `fmap` nextByte
-     return ((high `shiftL` 8) .|. low)
+{-# SPECIALIZE nextBits' :: Int -> Int -> Word8 -> DeflateM s Word8 #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE nextBits' :: Int -> Int -> Int -> DeflateM s Int #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE nextBits' :: Int -> Int -> Int64 -> DeflateM s Int64 #-}
+{-# INLINE nextBits' #-}
+nextBits' :: (Num a, Bits a) => Int -> Int -> a -> DeflateM s a
+nextBits' !x' !shiftNum !acc
+  | x' == 0 = return acc
+  | otherwise = do
+    dcs <- get
+    case dcsNextBitNo dcs of
+      8 -> case S.uncons (dcsInput dcs) of
+        Nothing -> do
+          getNextChunk
+          nextBits' x' shiftNum acc
+        Just (nextb, rest) -> do
+          set dcs{dcsNextBitNo = 0, dcsCurByte = nextb, dcsInput = rest}
+          nextBits' x' shiftNum acc
+      nextBitNo -> do
+        let !myBits = min x' (8 - nextBitNo)
+            !base = dcsCurByte dcs `shiftR` nextBitNo
+            !mask = complement (0xFF `shiftL` myBits)
+            !res = fromIntegral (base .&. mask)
+            !acc' = acc .|. (res `shiftL` shiftNum)
+        set dcs{dcsNextBitNo = nextBitNo + myBits}
+        nextBits' (x' - myBits) (shiftNum + myBits) acc'
 
-nextBlock :: Integral a => a -> DeflateM ByteString
-nextBlock amt =
-  do dcs <- get
-     unless (dcsNextBitNo dcs == 0) $
-       fail "Can't get a block on a non-byte boundary."
-     let curBlock = BS.cons (dcsCurByte dcs) (dcsInput dcs)
-         (block, rest) = BS.splitAt (fromIntegral amt) curBlock
-     case BS.uncons rest of
-       Nothing ->
-         fail "Not enough data left after nextBlock."
-       Just (first, rest') ->
-         do set dcs{ dcsNextBitNo = 0, dcsCurByte = first, dcsInput = rest' }
-            return block
+nextByte :: DeflateM s Word8
+nextByte = do
+  dcs <- get
+  if
+      | dcsNextBitNo dcs == 0 -> do
+        set dcs{dcsNextBitNo = 8}
+        return (dcsCurByte dcs)
+      | dcsNextBitNo dcs /= 8 -> nextBits 8 -- we're not aligned. sigh.
+      | otherwise -> case S.uncons (dcsInput dcs) of
+        Nothing -> getNextChunk >> nextByte
+        Just (nextb, rest) -> do
+          set
+            dcs
+              { dcsNextBitNo = 8
+              , dcsCurByte = nextb
+              , dcsInput = rest
+              }
+          return nextb
 
-nextCode :: Show a => HuffmanTree a -> DeflateM a
-nextCode tree =
-  do b <- nextBit
-     case advanceTree b tree of
-       Left tree' -> nextCode tree'
-       Right x    -> return x
+nextWord16 :: DeflateM s Word16
+nextWord16 = do
+  low <- fromIntegral `fmap` nextByte
+  high <- fromIntegral `fmap` nextByte
+  return ((high `shiftL` 8) .|. low)
 
-readRest :: DeflateM ByteString
-readRest =
-  do dcs <- get
-     return (BS.cons (dcsCurByte dcs) (dcsInput dcs))
+nextWord32 :: DeflateM s Word32
+nextWord32 = do
+  a <- fromIntegral `fmap` nextByte
+  b <- fromIntegral `fmap` nextByte
+  c <- fromIntegral `fmap` nextByte
+  d <- fromIntegral `fmap` nextByte
+  return ((a `shiftL` 24) .|. (b `shiftL` 16) .|. (c `shiftL` 8) .|. d)
 
-advanceToByte :: DeflateM ()
-advanceToByte =
-  do dcs <- get
-     when (dcsNextBitNo dcs /= 0) $
-       case BS.uncons (dcsInput dcs) of
-         Nothing -> error "Advanced with no bytes left!"
-         Just (nextb, rest) ->
-           set dcs{ dcsNextBitNo = 0, dcsCurByte = nextb, dcsInput = rest }
+nextBlock :: Integral a => a -> DeflateM s L.ByteString
+nextBlock amt = do
+  dcs <- get
+  if
+      | dcsNextBitNo dcs == 0 -> do
+        let startByte = dcsCurByte dcs
+        set dcs{dcsNextBitNo = 8}
+        rest <- nextBlock (amt - 1)
+        return (L.cons startByte rest)
+      | dcsNextBitNo dcs == 8 ->
+        getBlock (fromIntegral amt) (dcsInput dcs)
+      | otherwise ->
+        raise (FormatError "Can't get a block on a non-byte boundary.")
+ where
+  getBlock len bstr
+    | len < S.length bstr = do
+      let (mine, rest) = S.splitAt len bstr
+      dcs <- get
+      set dcs{dcsNextBitNo = 8, dcsInput = rest}
+      return (L.fromStrict mine)
+    | S.null bstr = do
+      getNextChunk
+      dcs <- get
+      let byte1 = dcsCurByte dcs
+      rest <- getBlock (len - 1) (dcsInput dcs)
+      return (L.cons byte1 rest)
+    | otherwise = do
+      rest <- getBlock (len - S.length bstr) S.empty
+      return (L.fromStrict bstr `L.append` rest)
 
-emitByte :: Word8 -> DeflateM ()
-emitByte b =
-  do dcs <- get
-     set dcs{ dcsOutput  = dcsOutput dcs `addByte` b
-            , dcsAdler32 = advanceAdler (dcsAdler32 dcs) b }
+nextCode :: Show a => HuffmanTree a -> DeflateM s a
+nextCode tree = do
+  b <- nextBits 1
+  case advanceTree b tree of
+    AdvanceError str -> raise (HuffmanTreeError str)
+    NewTree tree' -> nextCode tree'
+    Result x -> return x
+{-# INLINE nextCode #-}
 
-emitBlock :: ByteString -> DeflateM ()
-emitBlock b =
-  do dcs <- get
-     set dcs { dcsOutput  = dcsOutput dcs `addChunk` b
-             , dcsAdler32 = BS.foldl advanceAdler (dcsAdler32 dcs) b }
+advanceToByte :: DeflateM s ()
+advanceToByte = do
+  dcs <- get
+  set dcs{dcsNextBitNo = 8}
 
-emitPastChunk :: Int -> Int64 -> DeflateM ()
-emitPastChunk dist len =
-  do dcs <- get
-     let (output', newChunk) = addOldChunk (dcsOutput dcs) dist len
-     set dcs { dcsOutput = output'
-             , dcsAdler32 = BS.foldl advanceAdler (dcsAdler32 dcs) newChunk }
+emitByte :: Word8 -> DeflateM s ()
+emitByte b = do
+  dcs <- get
+  output' <- liftST (addByte (dcsOutput dcs) b)
+  let adler' = advanceAdler (dcsAdler32 dcs) b
+  set dcs{dcsOutput = output', dcsAdler32 = adler'}
+{-# INLINE emitByte #-}
 
-finalAdler :: DeflateM Word32
-finalAdler = (finalizeAdler . dcsAdler32) `fmap` get
+emitBlock :: L.ByteString -> DeflateM s ()
+emitBlock b = do
+  dcs <- get
+  output' <- liftST (addChunk (dcsOutput dcs) b)
+  let adler' = L.foldlChunks advanceAdlerBlock (dcsAdler32 dcs) b
+  set dcs{dcsOutput = output', dcsAdler32 = adler'}
 
-finalOutput :: DeflateM ByteString
-finalOutput = (outByteString . dcsOutput) `fmap` get
+emitPastChunk :: Int -> Int -> DeflateM s ()
+emitPastChunk dist len = do
+  dcs <- get
+  (output', newChunk) <- liftST (addOldChunk (dcsOutput dcs) dist len)
+  set
+    dcs
+      { dcsOutput = output'
+      , dcsAdler32 = advanceAdlerBlock (dcsAdler32 dcs) newChunk
+      }
+{-# INLINE emitPastChunk #-}
 
+finalAdler :: DeflateM s Word32
+finalAdler = (finalizeAdler . dcsAdler32) <$> get
+
+moveWindow :: DeflateM s ()
+moveWindow = do
+  dcs <- get
+  possibleExcess <- liftST (emitExcess (dcsOutput dcs))
+  case possibleExcess of
+    Nothing ->
+      return ()
+    Just (builtChunk, output') -> do
+      set dcs{dcsOutput = output'}
+      publish builtChunk
+
+finalize :: DeflateM s ()
+finalize = do
+  dcs <- get
+  lastChunk <- liftST (finalizeWindow (dcsOutput dcs))
+  publish lastChunk
+
+{-# INLINE publish #-}
+publish :: S.ByteString -> DeflateM s ()
+publish bstr = DeflateM $ \st k ->
+  return (Chunk bstr (k st ()))
diff --git a/src/Codec/Compression/Zlib/OutputWindow.hs b/src/Codec/Compression/Zlib/OutputWindow.hs
--- a/src/Codec/Compression/Zlib/OutputWindow.hs
+++ b/src/Codec/Compression/Zlib/OutputWindow.hs
@@ -1,69 +1,114 @@
 {-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE MagicHash #-}
 {-# LANGUAGE MultiParamTypeClasses #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE MultiWayIf #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE UnboxedTuples #-}
 {-# OPTIONS_GHC -fno-warn-orphans #-}
-module Codec.Compression.Zlib.OutputWindow(
-         OutputWindow
-       , emptyWindow
-       , addByte
-       , addChunk
-       , addOldChunk
-       , outByteString
-       )
- where
 
-import Data.ByteString.Builder
-import Data.ByteString.Lazy(ByteString)
-import qualified Data.ByteString as SBS
-import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as BS
-import Data.Int
-import Data.FingerTree
-import Data.Foldable(foldMap)
-import Data.Monoid
-import Data.Word
+module Codec.Compression.Zlib.OutputWindow (
+  OutputWindow,
+  emptyWindow,
+  emitExcess,
+  finalizeWindow,
+  addByte,
+  addChunk,
+  addOldChunk,
+) where
 
-data OutputWindow = OutputWindow {
-       owCommitted :: !(FingerTree Int SBS.ByteString)
-     , owRecent    :: !Builder
-     }
+import Control.Monad (foldM)
+import qualified Data.ByteString as S
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as L
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Short as SBS
+import Data.ByteString.Short.Internal (ShortByteString (SBS))
+import qualified Data.Primitive as Prim
+import qualified Data.Vector.Primitive as V
+import qualified Data.Vector.Primitive.Mutable as MV
+import GHC.ST (ST (..))
+import GHC.Word (Word8 (..))
 
-instance Monoid Int where
-  mempty  = 0
-  mappend = (+)
+windowSize :: Int
+windowSize = 128 * 1024
 
-instance Measured Int SBS.ByteString where
-  measure = SBS.length
+data OutputWindow s = OutputWindow
+  { owWindow :: {-# UNPACK #-} !(MV.MVector s Word8)
+  , owNext :: {-# UNPACK #-} !Int
+  }
 
-emptyWindow :: OutputWindow
-emptyWindow = OutputWindow empty mempty
+emptyWindow :: ST s (OutputWindow s)
+emptyWindow = do
+  window <- MV.new windowSize
+  return (OutputWindow window 0)
 
-addByte :: OutputWindow -> Word8 -> OutputWindow
-addByte !ow !b = ow{ owRecent = owRecent ow <> word8 b }
+excessChunkSize :: Int
+excessChunkSize = 32768
 
-addChunk :: OutputWindow -> ByteString -> OutputWindow
-addChunk !ow !bs = ow{ owRecent = owRecent ow <> lazyByteString bs }
+emitExcess :: OutputWindow s -> ST s (Maybe (S.ByteString, OutputWindow s))
+emitExcess OutputWindow{owWindow = window, owNext = initialOffset}
+  | initialOffset < excessChunkSize * 2 = return Nothing
+  | otherwise = do
+    toEmit <- V.freeze $ MV.slice 0 excessChunkSize window
+    let excessLength = initialOffset - excessChunkSize
+    -- Need move as these can overlap!
+    MV.move (MV.slice 0 excessLength window) (MV.slice excessChunkSize excessLength window)
+    let ow' = OutputWindow window excessLength
+    return (Just (SBS.fromShort $ toByteString toEmit, ow'))
 
-addOldChunk :: OutputWindow -> Int -> Int64 -> (OutputWindow, ByteString)
-addOldChunk !ow !dist !len = (OutputWindow output (lazyByteString chunk), chunk)
- where
-  output      = owCommitted ow |> BS.toStrict (toLazyByteString (owRecent ow))
-  dropAmt     = measure output - dist
-  (prev, sme) = split (> dropAmt) output
-  s :< rest   = viewl sme
-  start       = SBS.take (fromIntegral len) (SBS.drop (dropAmt-measure prev) s)
-  len'        = fromIntegral len - SBS.length start
-  (m, rest')  = split (> len') rest
-  middle      = BS.toStrict (toLazyByteString (outFinger m))
-  end         = case viewl rest' of
-                  EmptyL -> SBS.empty
-                  bs2 :< _ -> SBS.take (len' - measure m) bs2
-  chunkInf    = BS.fromChunks [start, middle, end] `BS.append` chunk
-  chunk       = BS.take len chunkInf
+finalizeWindow :: OutputWindow s -> ST s S.ByteString
+finalizeWindow ow = do
+  -- safe as we're doing it at the end
+  res <- V.unsafeFreeze (MV.slice 0 (owNext ow) (owWindow ow))
+  pure $ SBS.fromShort $ toByteString res
 
-outFinger :: FingerTree Int SBS.ByteString -> Builder
-outFinger = foldMap byteString
+-- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-outByteString :: OutputWindow -> ByteString
-outByteString ow = 
-  toLazyByteString (outFinger (owCommitted ow) <> owRecent ow)
+addByte :: OutputWindow s -> Word8 -> ST s (OutputWindow s)
+addByte !ow !b = do
+  let offset = owNext ow
+  MV.write (owWindow ow) offset b
+  return ow{owNext = offset + 1}
 
+addChunk :: OutputWindow s -> L.ByteString -> ST s (OutputWindow s)
+addChunk !ow !bs = foldM copyChunk ow (L.toChunks bs)
 
+copyChunk :: OutputWindow s -> S.ByteString -> ST s (OutputWindow s)
+copyChunk ow sbstr = do
+  -- safe as we're never going to look at this again
+  ba <- V.unsafeThaw $ fromByteString $ SBS.toShort sbstr
+  let offset = owNext ow
+      len = MV.length ba
+  MV.copy (MV.slice offset len (owWindow ow)) ba
+  return ow{owNext = offset + len}
+
+addOldChunk :: OutputWindow s -> Int -> Int -> ST s (OutputWindow s, S.ByteString)
+addOldChunk (OutputWindow window next) dist len = do
+  -- zlib can ask us to copy an "old" chunk that extends past our current offset.
+  -- The intention is that we then start copying the "new" data we just copied into
+  -- place. 'copyChunked' handles this for us.
+  copyChunked (MV.slice next len window) (MV.slice (next - dist) len window) dist
+  result <- V.freeze $ MV.slice next len window
+  return (OutputWindow window (next + len), SBS.fromShort $ toByteString result)
+
+{- | A copy function that copies the buffers sequentially in chunks no larger than
+ the stated size. This allows us to handle the insane zlib behaviour.
+-}
+copyChunked :: MV.MVector s Word8 -> MV.MVector s Word8 -> Int -> ST s ()
+copyChunked dest src chunkSize = go 0 (MV.length src)
+ where
+  go _ 0 = pure ()
+  go copied toCopy = do
+    let thisChunkSize = min toCopy chunkSize
+    MV.copy (MV.slice copied thisChunkSize dest) (MV.slice copied thisChunkSize src)
+    go (copied + thisChunkSize) (toCopy - thisChunkSize)
+
+-- TODO: these are a bit questionable. Maybe we can just pass around Vector Word8 in the client code?
+fromByteString :: SBS.ShortByteString -> V.Vector Word8
+fromByteString (SBS ba) =
+  let len = Prim.sizeofByteArray (Prim.ByteArray ba)
+      sz = Prim.sizeOf (undefined :: Word8)
+   in V.Vector 0 (len * sz) (Prim.ByteArray ba)
+
+toByteString :: V.Vector Word8 -> SBS.ShortByteString
+toByteString (V.Vector offset len ba) =
+  let sz = Prim.sizeOf (undefined :: Word8)
+      !(Prim.ByteArray ba') = Prim.cloneByteArray ba (offset * sz) (len * sz)
+   in SBS ba'
diff --git a/test/Test.hs b/test/Test.hs
--- a/test/Test.hs
+++ b/test/Test.hs
@@ -1,57 +1,125 @@
+import Codec.Compression.Zlib
 import Codec.Compression.Zlib.Deflate
-import Test.Framework
-import Test.Framework.Providers.HUnit
-import Test.HUnit(assertEqual)
+import Data.ByteString.Lazy (readFile)
+import Data.Char (ord)
+import Data.List (isPrefixOf)
+import System.FilePath
+import Test.Tasty
+import Test.Tasty.HUnit
+import Prelude hiding (readFile)
 
-rfcSimpleTestLengths :: [(Char, Int)]
-rfcSimpleTestLengths = [
-    ('A', 3)
-  , ('B', 3)
-  , ('C', 3)
-  , ('D', 3)
-  , ('E', 3)
-  , ('F', 2)
-  , ('G', 4)
-  , ('H', 4)
+-- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+rfcSimpleTestLengths :: [(Int, Int)]
+rfcSimpleTestLengths =
+  [ (ord 'A', 3)
+  , (ord 'B', 3)
+  , (ord 'C', 3)
+  , (ord 'D', 3)
+  , (ord 'E', 3)
+  , (ord 'F', 2)
+  , (ord 'G', 4)
+  , (ord 'H', 4)
   ]
 
-rfcSimpleTestResults :: [(Char, Int, Int)]
-rfcSimpleTestResults = [
-    ('A', 3, 2)  --  010
-  , ('B', 3, 3)  --  011
-  , ('C', 3, 4)  --  100
-  , ('D', 3, 5)  --  101
-  , ('E', 3, 6)  --  110
-  , ('F', 2, 0)  --   00
-  , ('G', 4, 14) -- 1110
-  , ('H', 4, 15) -- 1111
+rfcSimpleTestResults :: [(Int, Int, Int)]
+rfcSimpleTestResults =
+  [ (ord 'A', 3, 2) --  010
+  , (ord 'B', 3, 3) --  011
+  , (ord 'C', 3, 4) --  100
+  , (ord 'D', 3, 5) --  101
+  , (ord 'E', 3, 6) --  110
+  , (ord 'F', 2, 0) --   00
+  , (ord 'G', 4, 14) -- 1110
+  , (ord 'H', 4, 15) -- 1111
   ]
 
 fixedHuffmanLengths :: [(Int, Int)]
 fixedHuffmanLengths =
-  ([(x, 8) | x <- [0   .. 143]] ++
-   [(x, 9) | x <- [144 .. 255]] ++
-   [(x, 7) | x <- [256 .. 279]] ++
-   [(x, 8) | x <- [280 .. 287]])
+  ( [(x, 8) | x <- [0 .. 143]]
+    ++ [(x, 9) | x <- [144 .. 255]]
+      ++ [(x, 7) | x <- [256 .. 279]]
+      ++ [(x, 8) | x <- [280 .. 287]]
+  )
 
 fixedHuffmanResults :: [(Int, Int, Int)]
 fixedHuffmanResults =
-  ([(fst x, 8, snd x) | x <- zip [0  ..143] [48 ..191]] ++ --  00110000 through  10111111
-   [(fst x, 9, snd x) | x <- zip [144..255] [400..511]] ++ -- 110010000 through 111111111
-   [(fst x, 7, snd x) | x <- zip [256..279] [0  .. 23]] ++ --   0000000 through   0010111
-   [(fst x, 8, snd x) | x <- zip [280..287] [192..199]])   --  11000000 through  11000111
+  ( [(fst x, 8, snd x) | x <- zip [0 .. 143] [48 .. 191]]
+    ++ [(fst x, 9, snd x) | x <- zip [144 .. 255] [400 .. 511]] --  00110000 through  10111111
+      ++ [(fst x, 7, snd x) | x <- zip [256 .. 279] [0 .. 23]] -- 110010000 through 111111111
+      ++ [(fst x, 8, snd x) | x <- zip [280 .. 287] [192 .. 199]] --   0000000 through   0010111
+      --  11000000 through  11000111
+  )
 
-zlibTests :: Test
-zlibTests =
-  testGroup "DEFLATE / ZLib Algorithm Testing" [
-    testCase "RFC 1951 Code Generation Test"
-      (assertEqual "" (computeCodeValues rfcSimpleTestLengths)
-                      rfcSimpleTestResults)
-  , testCase "Fixed Huffman lengths make right tree"
-      (assertEqual "" (computeCodeValues fixedHuffmanLengths)
-                      fixedHuffmanResults)
+-- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+testCases :: [FilePath]
+testCases =
+  [ "randtest1"
+  , "randtest2"
+  , "randtest3"
+  , "rfctest1"
+  , "rfctest2"
+  , "rfctest3"
+  , "zerotest1"
+  , "zerotest2"
+  , "zerotest3"
   ]
 
-main :: IO ()
-main = defaultMain [zlibTests]
+buildGoldTestCases :: IO TestTree
+buildGoldTestCases =
+  do
+    trees <- mapM buildGoldTest testCases
+    return (testGroup "Decompression Tests" trees)
 
+buildGoldTest :: FilePath -> IO TestTree
+buildGoldTest test =
+  do
+    let compressedFile = "test" </> "test-cases" </> test <.> "z"
+        goldFile = "test" </> "test-cases" </> test <.> "gold"
+    compressedBStr <- readFile compressedFile
+    goldBStr <- readFile goldFile
+    return
+      ( testCase
+          (toTestCaseName test)
+          (assertEqual test (Right goldBStr) (decompress compressedBStr))
+      )
+
+toTestCaseName :: FilePath -> String
+toTestCaseName fpath = prefix ++ suffix
+ where
+  prefix
+    | "zero" `isPrefixOf` fpath = "Zero test #"
+    | "rand" `isPrefixOf` fpath = "Random test #"
+    | "rfc" `isPrefixOf` fpath = "RFC test #"
+    | otherwise = error "Bad test case prefix."
+  suffix = [last fpath]
+
+-- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+zlibTests :: IO TestTree
+zlibTests =
+  do
+    decompTests <- buildGoldTestCases
+    return $
+      testGroup
+        "DEFLATE / ZLib Algorithm Testing"
+        [ testCase
+            "RFC 1951 Code Generation Test"
+            ( assertEqual
+                ""
+                (computeCodeValues rfcSimpleTestLengths)
+                rfcSimpleTestResults
+            )
+        , testCase
+            "Fixed Huffman lengths make right tree"
+            ( assertEqual
+                ""
+                (computeCodeValues fixedHuffmanLengths)
+                fixedHuffmanResults
+            )
+        , decompTests
+        ]
+
+main :: IO ()
+main = defaultMain =<< zlibTests
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+<span class="pre noprint docinfo">                                                           INFORMATIONAL</span><br />
+<span class="pre noprint docinfo">                                                                        </span><br />
+<pre>
+Network Working Group                                         P. Deutsch
+Request for Comments: 1950                           Aladdin Enterprises
+Category: Informational                                      J-L. Gailly
+                                                                Info-ZIP
+                                                                May 1996
+
+
+         <span class="h1">ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification version 3.3</span>
+
+Status of This Memo
+
+   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  This memo
+   does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of
+   this memo is unlimited.
+
+IESG Note:
+
+   The IESG takes no position on the validity of any Intellectual
+   Property Rights statements contained in this document.
+
+Notices
+
+   Copyright (c) 1996 L. Peter Deutsch and Jean-Loup Gailly
+
+   Permission is granted to copy and distribute this document for any
+   purpose and without charge, including translations into other
+   languages and incorporation into compilations, provided that the
+   copyright notice and this notice are preserved, and that any
+   substantive changes or deletions from the original are clearly
+   marked.
+
+   A pointer to the latest version of this and related documentation in
+   HTML format can be found at the URL
+   &lt;<a href="ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/zdoc-index.html">ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/zdoc-index.html</a>&gt;.
+
+Abstract
+
+   This specification defines a lossless compressed data format.  The
+   data can be produced or consumed, even for an arbitrarily long
+   sequentially presented input data stream, using only an a priori
+   bounded amount of intermediate storage.  The format presently uses
+   the DEFLATE compression method but can be easily extended to use
+   other compression methods.  It can be implemented readily in a manner
+   not covered by patents.  This specification also defines the ADLER-32
+   checksum (an extension and improvement of the Fletcher checksum),
+   used for detection of data corruption, and provides an algorithm for
+   computing it.
+
+
+
+
+<span class="grey">Deutsch &amp; Gailly             Informational                      [Page 1]</span></pre>
+<hr class='noprint' style='width: 96ex;' align='left'/><!--NewPage--><pre class='newpage'><a name="page-2" id="page-2" href="#page-2" class="invisible"> </a>
+<span class="grey"><a href="./rfc1950">RFC 1950</a>       ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification        May 1996</span>
+
+
+Table of Contents
+
+   <a href="#section-1">1</a>. Introduction ................................................... <a href="#page-2">2</a>
+      <a href="#section-1.1">1.1</a>. Purpose ................................................... <a href="#page-2">2</a>
+      <a href="#section-1.2">1.2</a>. Intended audience ......................................... <a href="#page-3">3</a>
+      <a href="#section-1.3">1.3</a>. Scope ..................................................... <a href="#page-3">3</a>
+      <a href="#section-1.4">1.4</a>. Compliance ................................................ <a href="#page-3">3</a>
+      <a href="#section-1.5">1.5</a>.  Definitions of terms and conventions used ................ <a href="#page-3">3</a>
+      <a href="#section-1.6">1.6</a>. Changes from previous versions ............................ <a href="#page-3">3</a>
+   <a href="#section-2">2</a>. Detailed specification ......................................... <a href="#page-3">3</a>
+      <a href="#section-2.1">2.1</a>. Overall conventions ....................................... <a href="#page-3">3</a>
+      <a href="#section-2.2">2.2</a>. Data format ............................................... <a href="#page-4">4</a>
+      <a href="#section-2.3">2.3</a>. Compliance ................................................ <a href="#page-7">7</a>
+   <a href="#section-3">3</a>. References ..................................................... <a href="#page-7">7</a>
+   <a href="#section-4">4</a>. Source code .................................................... <a href="#page-8">8</a>
+   <a href="#section-5">5</a>. Security Considerations ........................................ <a href="#page-8">8</a>
+   <a href="#section-6">6</a>. Acknowledgements ............................................... <a href="#page-8">8</a>
+   <a href="#section-7">7</a>. Authors' Addresses ............................................. <a href="#page-8">8</a>
+   <a href="#section-8">8</a>. Appendix: Rationale ............................................ <a href="#page-9">9</a>
+   <a href="#section-9">9</a>. Appendix: Sample code ..........................................<a href="#page-10">10</a>
+
+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-1" href="#section-1">1</a>. Introduction</span>
+
+   1.1. Purpose
+
+      The purpose of this specification is to define a lossless
+      compressed data format that:
+
+          * Is independent of CPU type, operating system, file system,
+            and character set, and hence can be used for interchange;
+
+          * Can be produced or consumed, even for an arbitrarily long
+            sequentially presented input data stream, using only an a
+            priori bounded amount of intermediate storage, and hence can
+            be used in data communications or similar structures such as
+            Unix filters;
+
+          * Can use a number of different compression methods;
+
+          * Can be implemented readily in a manner not covered by
+            patents, and hence can be practiced freely.
+
+      The data format defined by this specification does not attempt to
+      allow random access to compressed data.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+<hr class='noprint' style='width: 96ex;' align='left'/><!--NewPage--><pre class='newpage'><a name="page-3" id="page-3" href="#page-3" class="invisible"> </a>
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+
+
+   1.2. Intended audience
+
+      This specification is intended for use by implementors of software
+      to compress data into zlib format and/or decompress data from zlib
+      format.
+
+      The text of the specification assumes a basic background in
+      programming at the level of bits and other primitive data
+      representations.
+
+   1.3. Scope
+
+      The specification specifies a compressed data format that can be
+      used for in-memory compression of a sequence of arbitrary bytes.
+
+   1.4. Compliance
+
+      Unless otherwise indicated below, a compliant decompressor must be
+      able to accept and decompress any data set that conforms to all
+      the specifications presented here; a compliant compressor must
+      produce data sets that conform to all the specifications presented
+      here.
+
+   1.5.  Definitions of terms and conventions used
+
+      byte: 8 bits stored or transmitted as a unit (same as an octet).
+      (For this specification, a byte is exactly 8 bits, even on
+      machines which store a character on a number of bits different
+      from 8.) See below, for the numbering of bits within a byte.
+
+   1.6. Changes from previous versions
+
+      Version 3.1 was the first public release of this specification.
+      In version 3.2, some terminology was changed and the Adler-32
+      sample code was rewritten for clarity.  In version 3.3, the
+      support for a preset dictionary was introduced, and the
+      specification was converted to RFC style.
+
+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-2" href="#section-2">2</a>. Detailed specification</span>
+
+   2.1. Overall conventions
+
+      In the diagrams below, a box like this:
+
+         +---+
+         |   | &lt;-- the vertical bars might be missing
+         +---+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+      represents one byte; a box like this:
+
+         +==============+
+         |              |
+         +==============+
+
+      represents a variable number of bytes.
+
+      Bytes stored within a computer do not have a "bit order", since
+      they are always treated as a unit.  However, a byte considered as
+      an integer between 0 and 255 does have a most- and least-
+      significant bit, and since we write numbers with the most-
+      significant digit on the left, we also write bytes with the most-
+      significant bit on the left.  In the diagrams below, we number the
+      bits of a byte so that bit 0 is the least-significant bit, i.e.,
+      the bits are numbered:
+
+         +--------+
+         |76543210|
+         +--------+
+
+      Within a computer, a number may occupy multiple bytes.  All
+      multi-byte numbers in the format described here are stored with
+      the MOST-significant byte first (at the lower memory address).
+      For example, the decimal number 520 is stored as:
+
+             0     1
+         +--------+--------+
+         |00000010|00001000|
+         +--------+--------+
+          ^        ^
+          |        |
+          |        + less significant byte = 8
+          + more significant byte = 2 x 256
+
+   2.2. Data format
+
+      A zlib stream has the following structure:
+
+           0   1
+         +---+---+
+         |CMF|FLG|   (more--&gt;)
+         +---+---+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+      (if FLG.FDICT set)
+
+           0   1   2   3
+         +---+---+---+---+
+         |     DICTID    |   (more--&gt;)
+         +---+---+---+---+
+
+         +=====================+---+---+---+---+
+         |...compressed data...|    ADLER32    |
+         +=====================+---+---+---+---+
+
+      Any data which may appear after ADLER32 are not part of the zlib
+      stream.
+
+      CMF (Compression Method and flags)
+         This byte is divided into a 4-bit compression method and a 4-
+         bit information field depending on the compression method.
+
+            bits 0 to 3  CM     Compression method
+            bits 4 to 7  CINFO  Compression info
+
+      CM (Compression method)
+         This identifies the compression method used in the file. CM = 8
+         denotes the "deflate" compression method with a window size up
+         to 32K.  This is the method used by gzip and PNG (see
+         references [<a href="#ref-1" title="&quot;GZIP Compressed Data Format Specification&quot;">1</a>] and [<a href="#ref-2" title="&quot;PNG (Portable Network Graphics) specification&quot;">2</a>] in Chapter 3, below, for the reference
+         documents).  CM = 15 is reserved.  It might be used in a future
+         version of this specification to indicate the presence of an
+         extra field before the compressed data.
+
+      CINFO (Compression info)
+         For CM = 8, CINFO is the base-2 logarithm of the LZ77 window
+         size, minus eight (CINFO=7 indicates a 32K window size). Values
+         of CINFO above 7 are not allowed in this version of the
+         specification.  CINFO is not defined in this specification for
+         CM not equal to 8.
+
+      FLG (FLaGs)
+         This flag byte is divided as follows:
+
+            bits 0 to 4  FCHECK  (check bits for CMF and FLG)
+            bit  5       FDICT   (preset dictionary)
+            bits 6 to 7  FLEVEL  (compression level)
+
+         The FCHECK value must be such that CMF and FLG, when viewed as
+         a 16-bit unsigned integer stored in MSB order (CMF*256 + FLG),
+         is a multiple of 31.
+
+
+
+
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+
+      FDICT (Preset dictionary)
+         If FDICT is set, a DICT dictionary identifier is present
+         immediately after the FLG byte. The dictionary is a sequence of
+         bytes which are initially fed to the compressor without
+         producing any compressed output. DICT is the Adler-32 checksum
+         of this sequence of bytes (see the definition of ADLER32
+         below).  The decompressor can use this identifier to determine
+         which dictionary has been used by the compressor.
+
+      FLEVEL (Compression level)
+         These flags are available for use by specific compression
+         methods.  The "deflate" method (CM = 8) sets these flags as
+         follows:
+
+            0 - compressor used fastest algorithm
+            1 - compressor used fast algorithm
+            2 - compressor used default algorithm
+            3 - compressor used maximum compression, slowest algorithm
+
+         The information in FLEVEL is not needed for decompression; it
+         is there to indicate if recompression might be worthwhile.
+
+      compressed data
+         For compression method 8, the compressed data is stored in the
+         deflate compressed data format as described in the document
+         "DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification" by L. Peter
+         Deutsch. (See reference [<a href="#ref-3" title="&quot;DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification&quot;">3</a>] in Chapter 3, below)
+
+         Other compressed data formats are not specified in this version
+         of the zlib specification.
+
+      ADLER32 (Adler-32 checksum)
+         This contains a checksum value of the uncompressed data
+         (excluding any dictionary data) computed according to Adler-32
+         algorithm. This algorithm is a 32-bit extension and improvement
+         of the Fletcher algorithm, used in the ITU-T X.224 / ISO 8073
+         standard. See references [<a href="#ref-4" title="&quot;An Arithmetic Checksum for Serial Transmissions,&quot;">4</a>] and [<a href="#ref-5" title="&quot;Checksum Algorithms,&quot;">5</a>] in Chapter 3, below)
+
+         Adler-32 is composed of two sums accumulated per byte: s1 is
+         the sum of all bytes, s2 is the sum of all s1 values. Both sums
+         are done modulo 65521. s1 is initialized to 1, s2 to zero.  The
+         Adler-32 checksum is stored as s2*65536 + s1 in most-
+         significant-byte first (network) order.
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+   2.3. Compliance
+
+      A compliant compressor must produce streams with correct CMF, FLG
+      and ADLER32, but need not support preset dictionaries.  When the
+      zlib data format is used as part of another standard data format,
+      the compressor may use only preset dictionaries that are specified
+      by this other data format.  If this other format does not use the
+      preset dictionary feature, the compressor must not set the FDICT
+      flag.
+
+      A compliant decompressor must check CMF, FLG, and ADLER32, and
+      provide an error indication if any of these have incorrect values.
+      A compliant decompressor must give an error indication if CM is
+      not one of the values defined in this specification (only the
+      value 8 is permitted in this version), since another value could
+      indicate the presence of new features that would cause subsequent
+      data to be interpreted incorrectly.  A compliant decompressor must
+      give an error indication if FDICT is set and DICTID is not the
+      identifier of a known preset dictionary.  A decompressor may
+      ignore FLEVEL and still be compliant.  When the zlib data format
+      is being used as a part of another standard format, a compliant
+      decompressor must support all the preset dictionaries specified by
+      the other format. When the other format does not use the preset
+      dictionary feature, a compliant decompressor must reject any
+      stream in which the FDICT flag is set.
+
+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-3" href="#section-3">3</a>. References</span>
+
+   [<a name="ref-1" id="ref-1">1</a>] Deutsch, L.P.,"GZIP Compressed Data Format Specification",
+       available in <a href="ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/doc/">ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/doc/</a>
+
+   [<a name="ref-2" id="ref-2">2</a>] Thomas Boutell, "PNG (Portable Network Graphics) specification",
+       available in <a href="ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/">ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/</a>
+
+   [<a name="ref-3" id="ref-3">3</a>] Deutsch, L.P.,"DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification",
+       available in <a href="ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/doc/">ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/doc/</a>
+
+   [<a name="ref-4" id="ref-4">4</a>] Fletcher, J. G., "An Arithmetic Checksum for Serial
+       Transmissions," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. COM-30,
+       No. 1, January 1982, pp. 247-252.
+
+   [<a name="ref-5" id="ref-5">5</a>] ITU-T Recommendation X.224, Annex D, "Checksum Algorithms,"
+       November, 1993, pp. 144, 145. (Available from
+       gopher://info.itu.ch). ITU-T X.244 is also the same as ISO 8073.
+
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+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-4" href="#section-4">4</a>. Source code</span>
+
+   Source code for a C language implementation of a "zlib" compliant
+   library is available at <a href="ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/zlib/">ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/zlib/</a>.
+
+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-5" href="#section-5">5</a>. Security Considerations</span>
+
+   A decoder that fails to check the ADLER32 checksum value may be
+   subject to undetected data corruption.
+
+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-6" href="#section-6">6</a>. Acknowledgements</span>
+
+   Trademarks cited in this document are the property of their
+   respective owners.
+
+   Jean-Loup Gailly and Mark Adler designed the zlib format and wrote
+   the related software described in this specification.  Glenn
+   Randers-Pehrson converted this document to RFC and HTML format.
+
+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-7" href="#section-7">7</a>. Authors' Addresses</span>
+
+   L. Peter Deutsch
+   Aladdin Enterprises
+   203 Santa Margarita Ave.
+   Menlo Park, CA 94025
+
+   Phone: (415) 322-0103 (AM only)
+   FAX:   (415) 322-1734
+   EMail: &lt;ghost@aladdin.com&gt;
+
+
+   Jean-Loup Gailly
+
+   EMail: &lt;gzip@prep.ai.mit.edu&gt;
+
+   Questions about the technical content of this specification can be
+   sent by email to
+
+   Jean-Loup Gailly &lt;gzip@prep.ai.mit.edu&gt; and
+   Mark Adler &lt;madler@alumni.caltech.edu&gt;
+
+   Editorial comments on this specification can be sent by email to
+
+   L. Peter Deutsch &lt;ghost@aladdin.com&gt; and
+   Glenn Randers-Pehrson &lt;randeg@alumni.rpi.edu&gt;
+
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+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-8" href="#section-8">8</a>. Appendix: Rationale</span>
+
+   8.1. Preset dictionaries
+
+      A preset dictionary is specially useful to compress short input
+      sequences. The compressor can take advantage of the dictionary
+      context to encode the input in a more compact manner. The
+      decompressor can be initialized with the appropriate context by
+      virtually decompressing a compressed version of the dictionary
+      without producing any output. However for certain compression
+      algorithms such as the deflate algorithm this operation can be
+      achieved without actually performing any decompression.
+
+      The compressor and the decompressor must use exactly the same
+      dictionary. The dictionary may be fixed or may be chosen among a
+      certain number of predefined dictionaries, according to the kind
+      of input data. The decompressor can determine which dictionary has
+      been chosen by the compressor by checking the dictionary
+      identifier. This document does not specify the contents of
+      predefined dictionaries, since the optimal dictionaries are
+      application specific. Standard data formats using this feature of
+      the zlib specification must precisely define the allowed
+      dictionaries.
+
+   8.2. The Adler-32 algorithm
+
+      The Adler-32 algorithm is much faster than the CRC32 algorithm yet
+      still provides an extremely low probability of undetected errors.
+
+      The modulo on unsigned long accumulators can be delayed for 5552
+      bytes, so the modulo operation time is negligible.  If the bytes
+      are a, b, c, the second sum is 3a + 2b + c + 3, and so is position
+      and order sensitive, unlike the first sum, which is just a
+      checksum.  That 65521 is prime is important to avoid a possible
+      large class of two-byte errors that leave the check unchanged.
+      (The Fletcher checksum uses 255, which is not prime and which also
+      makes the Fletcher check insensitive to single byte changes 0 &lt;-&gt;
+      255.)
+
+      The sum s1 is initialized to 1 instead of zero to make the length
+      of the sequence part of s2, so that the length does not have to be
+      checked separately. (Any sequence of zeroes has a Fletcher
+      checksum of zero.)
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+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-9" href="#section-9">9</a>. Appendix: Sample code</span>
+
+   The following C code computes the Adler-32 checksum of a data buffer.
+   It is written for clarity, not for speed.  The sample code is in the
+   ANSI C programming language. Non C users may find it easier to read
+   with these hints:
+
+      &amp;      Bitwise AND operator.
+      &gt;&gt;     Bitwise right shift operator. When applied to an
+             unsigned quantity, as here, right shift inserts zero bit(s)
+             at the left.
+      &lt;&lt;     Bitwise left shift operator. Left shift inserts zero
+             bit(s) at the right.
+      ++     "n++" increments the variable n.
+      %      modulo operator: a % b is the remainder of a divided by b.
+
+      #define BASE 65521 /* largest prime smaller than 65536 */
+
+      /*
+         Update a running Adler-32 checksum with the bytes buf[0..len-1]
+       and return the updated checksum. The Adler-32 checksum should be
+       initialized to 1.
+
+       Usage example:
+
+         unsigned long adler = 1L;
+
+         while (read_buffer(buffer, length) != EOF) {
+           adler = update_adler32(adler, buffer, length);
+         }
+         if (adler != original_adler) error();
+      */
+      unsigned long update_adler32(unsigned long adler,
+         unsigned char *buf, int len)
+      {
+        unsigned long s1 = adler &amp; 0xffff;
+        unsigned long s2 = (adler &gt;&gt; 16) &amp; 0xffff;
+        int n;
+
+        for (n = 0; n &lt; len; n++) {
+          s1 = (s1 + buf[n]) % BASE;
+          s2 = (s2 + s1)     % BASE;
+        }
+        return (s2 &lt;&lt; 16) + s1;
+      }
+
+      /* Return the adler32 of the bytes buf[0..len-1] */
+
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+Network Working Group                                         P. Deutsch
+Request for Comments: 1951                           Aladdin Enterprises
+Category: Informational                                         May 1996
+
+
+        <span class="h1">DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3</span>
+
+Status of This Memo
+
+   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  This memo
+   does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of
+   this memo is unlimited.
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+   Copyright (c) 1996 L. Peter Deutsch
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+   languages and incorporation into compilations, provided that the
+   copyright notice and this notice are preserved, and that any
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+Abstract
+
+   This specification defines a lossless compressed data format that
+   compresses data using a combination of the LZ77 algorithm and Huffman
+   coding, with efficiency comparable to the best currently available
+   general-purpose compression methods.  The data can be produced or
+   consumed, even for an arbitrarily long sequentially presented input
+   data stream, using only an a priori bounded amount of intermediate
+   storage.  The format can be implemented readily in a manner not
+   covered by patents.
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+Table of Contents
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+   <a href="#section-1">1</a>. Introduction ................................................... <a href="#page-2">2</a>
+      <a href="#section-1.1">1.1</a>. Purpose ................................................... <a href="#page-2">2</a>
+      <a href="#section-1.2">1.2</a>. Intended audience ......................................... <a href="#page-3">3</a>
+      <a href="#section-1.3">1.3</a>. Scope ..................................................... <a href="#page-3">3</a>
+      <a href="#section-1.4">1.4</a>. Compliance ................................................ <a href="#page-3">3</a>
+      <a href="#section-1.5">1.5</a>.  Definitions of terms and conventions used ................ <a href="#page-3">3</a>
+      <a href="#section-1.6">1.6</a>. Changes from previous versions ............................ <a href="#page-4">4</a>
+   <a href="#section-2">2</a>. Compressed representation overview ............................. <a href="#page-4">4</a>
+   <a href="#section-3">3</a>. Detailed specification ......................................... <a href="#page-5">5</a>
+      <a href="#section-3.1">3.1</a>. Overall conventions ....................................... <a href="#page-5">5</a>
+          <a href="#section-3.1.1">3.1.1</a>. Packing into bytes .................................. <a href="#page-5">5</a>
+      <a href="#section-3.2">3.2</a>. Compressed block format ................................... <a href="#page-6">6</a>
+          <a href="#section-3.2.1">3.2.1</a>. Synopsis of prefix and Huffman coding ............... <a href="#page-6">6</a>
+          <a href="#section-3.2.2">3.2.2</a>. Use of Huffman coding in the "deflate" format ....... <a href="#page-7">7</a>
+          <a href="#section-3.2.3">3.2.3</a>. Details of block format ............................. <a href="#page-9">9</a>
+          <a href="#section-3.2.4">3.2.4</a>. Non-compressed blocks (BTYPE=00) ................... <a href="#page-11">11</a>
+          <a href="#section-3.2.5">3.2.5</a>. Compressed blocks (length and distance codes) ...... <a href="#page-11">11</a>
+          <a href="#section-3.2.6">3.2.6</a>. Compression with fixed Huffman codes (BTYPE=01) .... <a href="#page-12">12</a>
+          <a href="#section-3.2.7">3.2.7</a>. Compression with dynamic Huffman codes (BTYPE=10) .. <a href="#page-13">13</a>
+      <a href="#section-3.3">3.3</a>. Compliance ............................................... <a href="#page-14">14</a>
+   <a href="#section-4">4</a>. Compression algorithm details ................................. <a href="#page-14">14</a>
+   <a href="#section-5">5</a>. References .................................................... <a href="#page-16">16</a>
+   <a href="#section-6">6</a>. Security Considerations ....................................... <a href="#page-16">16</a>
+   <a href="#section-7">7</a>. Source code ................................................... <a href="#page-16">16</a>
+   <a href="#section-8">8</a>. Acknowledgements .............................................. <a href="#page-16">16</a>
+   <a href="#section-9">9</a>. Author's Address .............................................. <a href="#page-17">17</a>
+
+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-1" href="#section-1">1</a>. Introduction</span>
+
+   1.1. Purpose
+
+      The purpose of this specification is to define a lossless
+      compressed data format that:
+          * Is independent of CPU type, operating system, file system,
+            and character set, and hence can be used for interchange;
+          * Can be produced or consumed, even for an arbitrarily long
+            sequentially presented input data stream, using only an a
+            priori bounded amount of intermediate storage, and hence
+            can be used in data communications or similar structures
+            such as Unix filters;
+          * Compresses data with efficiency comparable to the best
+            currently available general-purpose compression methods,
+            and in particular considerably better than the "compress"
+            program;
+          * Can be implemented readily in a manner not covered by
+            patents, and hence can be practiced freely;
+
+
+
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+
+          * Is compatible with the file format produced by the current
+            widely used gzip utility, in that conforming decompressors
+            will be able to read data produced by the existing gzip
+            compressor.
+
+      The data format defined by this specification does not attempt to:
+
+          * Allow random access to compressed data;
+          * Compress specialized data (e.g., raster graphics) as well
+            as the best currently available specialized algorithms.
+
+      A simple counting argument shows that no lossless compression
+      algorithm can compress every possible input data set.  For the
+      format defined here, the worst case expansion is 5 bytes per 32K-
+      byte block, i.e., a size increase of 0.015% for large data sets.
+      English text usually compresses by a factor of 2.5 to 3;
+      executable files usually compress somewhat less; graphical data
+      such as raster images may compress much more.
+
+   1.2. Intended audience
+
+      This specification is intended for use by implementors of software
+      to compress data into "deflate" format and/or decompress data from
+      "deflate" format.
+
+      The text of the specification assumes a basic background in
+      programming at the level of bits and other primitive data
+      representations.  Familiarity with the technique of Huffman coding
+      is helpful but not required.
+
+   1.3. Scope
+
+      The specification specifies a method for representing a sequence
+      of bytes as a (usually shorter) sequence of bits, and a method for
+      packing the latter bit sequence into bytes.
+
+   1.4. Compliance
+
+      Unless otherwise indicated below, a compliant decompressor must be
+      able to accept and decompress any data set that conforms to all
+      the specifications presented here; a compliant compressor must
+      produce data sets that conform to all the specifications presented
+      here.
+
+   1.5.  Definitions of terms and conventions used
+
+      Byte: 8 bits stored or transmitted as a unit (same as an octet).
+      For this specification, a byte is exactly 8 bits, even on machines
+
+
+
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+
+      which store a character on a number of bits different from eight.
+      See below, for the numbering of bits within a byte.
+
+      String: a sequence of arbitrary bytes.
+
+   1.6. Changes from previous versions
+
+      There have been no technical changes to the deflate format since
+      version 1.1 of this specification.  In version 1.2, some
+      terminology was changed.  Version 1.3 is a conversion of the
+      specification to RFC style.
+
+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-2" href="#section-2">2</a>. Compressed representation overview</span>
+
+   A compressed data set consists of a series of blocks, corresponding
+   to successive blocks of input data.  The block sizes are arbitrary,
+   except that non-compressible blocks are limited to 65,535 bytes.
+
+   Each block is compressed using a combination of the LZ77 algorithm
+   and Huffman coding. The Huffman trees for each block are independent
+   of those for previous or subsequent blocks; the LZ77 algorithm may
+   use a reference to a duplicated string occurring in a previous block,
+   up to 32K input bytes before.
+
+   Each block consists of two parts: a pair of Huffman code trees that
+   describe the representation of the compressed data part, and a
+   compressed data part.  (The Huffman trees themselves are compressed
+   using Huffman encoding.)  The compressed data consists of a series of
+   elements of two types: literal bytes (of strings that have not been
+   detected as duplicated within the previous 32K input bytes), and
+   pointers to duplicated strings, where a pointer is represented as a
+   pair &lt;length, backward distance&gt;.  The representation used in the
+   "deflate" format limits distances to 32K bytes and lengths to 258
+   bytes, but does not limit the size of a block, except for
+   uncompressible blocks, which are limited as noted above.
+
+   Each type of value (literals, distances, and lengths) in the
+   compressed data is represented using a Huffman code, using one code
+   tree for literals and lengths and a separate code tree for distances.
+   The code trees for each block appear in a compact form just before
+   the compressed data for that block.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-3" href="#section-3">3</a>. Detailed specification</span>
+
+   3.1. Overall conventions In the diagrams below, a box like this:
+
+         +---+
+         |   | &lt;-- the vertical bars might be missing
+         +---+
+
+      represents one byte; a box like this:
+
+         +==============+
+         |              |
+         +==============+
+
+      represents a variable number of bytes.
+
+      Bytes stored within a computer do not have a "bit order", since
+      they are always treated as a unit.  However, a byte considered as
+      an integer between 0 and 255 does have a most- and least-
+      significant bit, and since we write numbers with the most-
+      significant digit on the left, we also write bytes with the most-
+      significant bit on the left.  In the diagrams below, we number the
+      bits of a byte so that bit 0 is the least-significant bit, i.e.,
+      the bits are numbered:
+
+         +--------+
+         |76543210|
+         +--------+
+
+      Within a computer, a number may occupy multiple bytes.  All
+      multi-byte numbers in the format described here are stored with
+      the least-significant byte first (at the lower memory address).
+      For example, the decimal number 520 is stored as:
+
+             0        1
+         +--------+--------+
+         |00001000|00000010|
+         +--------+--------+
+          ^        ^
+          |        |
+          |        + more significant byte = 2 x 256
+          + less significant byte = 8
+
+      3.1.1. Packing into bytes
+
+         This document does not address the issue of the order in which
+         bits of a byte are transmitted on a bit-sequential medium,
+         since the final data format described here is byte- rather than
+
+
+
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+
+         bit-oriented.  However, we describe the compressed block format
+         in below, as a sequence of data elements of various bit
+         lengths, not a sequence of bytes.  We must therefore specify
+         how to pack these data elements into bytes to form the final
+         compressed byte sequence:
+
+             * Data elements are packed into bytes in order of
+               increasing bit number within the byte, i.e., starting
+               with the least-significant bit of the byte.
+             * Data elements other than Huffman codes are packed
+               starting with the least-significant bit of the data
+               element.
+             * Huffman codes are packed starting with the most-
+               significant bit of the code.
+
+         In other words, if one were to print out the compressed data as
+         a sequence of bytes, starting with the first byte at the
+         *right* margin and proceeding to the *left*, with the most-
+         significant bit of each byte on the left as usual, one would be
+         able to parse the result from right to left, with fixed-width
+         elements in the correct MSB-to-LSB order and Huffman codes in
+         bit-reversed order (i.e., with the first bit of the code in the
+         relative LSB position).
+
+   3.2. Compressed block format
+
+      3.2.1. Synopsis of prefix and Huffman coding
+
+         Prefix coding represents symbols from an a priori known
+         alphabet by bit sequences (codes), one code for each symbol, in
+         a manner such that different symbols may be represented by bit
+         sequences of different lengths, but a parser can always parse
+         an encoded string unambiguously symbol-by-symbol.
+
+         We define a prefix code in terms of a binary tree in which the
+         two edges descending from each non-leaf node are labeled 0 and
+         1 and in which the leaf nodes correspond one-for-one with (are
+         labeled with) the symbols of the alphabet; then the code for a
+         symbol is the sequence of 0's and 1's on the edges leading from
+         the root to the leaf labeled with that symbol.  For example:
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+                          /\              Symbol    Code
+                         0  1             ------    ----
+                        /    \                A      00
+                       /\     B               B       1
+                      0  1                    C     011
+                     /    \                   D     010
+                    A     /\
+                         0  1
+                        /    \
+                       D      C
+
+         A parser can decode the next symbol from an encoded input
+         stream by walking down the tree from the root, at each step
+         choosing the edge corresponding to the next input bit.
+
+         Given an alphabet with known symbol frequencies, the Huffman
+         algorithm allows the construction of an optimal prefix code
+         (one which represents strings with those symbol frequencies
+         using the fewest bits of any possible prefix codes for that
+         alphabet).  Such a code is called a Huffman code.  (See
+         reference [<a href="#ref-1" title="&quot;A Method for the Construction of Minimum Redundancy Codes&quot;">1</a>] in Chapter 5, references for additional
+         information on Huffman codes.)
+
+         Note that in the "deflate" format, the Huffman codes for the
+         various alphabets must not exceed certain maximum code lengths.
+         This constraint complicates the algorithm for computing code
+         lengths from symbol frequencies.  Again, see Chapter 5,
+         references for details.
+
+      3.2.2. Use of Huffman coding in the "deflate" format
+
+         The Huffman codes used for each alphabet in the "deflate"
+         format have two additional rules:
+
+             * All codes of a given bit length have lexicographically
+               consecutive values, in the same order as the symbols
+               they represent;
+
+             * Shorter codes lexicographically precede longer codes.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+         We could recode the example above to follow this rule as
+         follows, assuming that the order of the alphabet is ABCD:
+
+            Symbol  Code
+            ------  ----
+            A       10
+            B       0
+            C       110
+            D       111
+
+         I.e., 0 precedes 10 which precedes 11x, and 110 and 111 are
+         lexicographically consecutive.
+
+         Given this rule, we can define the Huffman code for an alphabet
+         just by giving the bit lengths of the codes for each symbol of
+         the alphabet in order; this is sufficient to determine the
+         actual codes.  In our example, the code is completely defined
+         by the sequence of bit lengths (2, 1, 3, 3).  The following
+         algorithm generates the codes as integers, intended to be read
+         from most- to least-significant bit.  The code lengths are
+         initially in tree[I].Len; the codes are produced in
+         tree[I].Code.
+
+         1)  Count the number of codes for each code length.  Let
+             bl_count[N] be the number of codes of length N, N &gt;= 1.
+
+         2)  Find the numerical value of the smallest code for each
+             code length:
+
+                code = 0;
+                bl_count[0] = 0;
+                for (bits = 1; bits &lt;= MAX_BITS; bits++) {
+                    code = (code + bl_count[bits-1]) &lt;&lt; 1;
+                    next_code[bits] = code;
+                }
+
+         3)  Assign numerical values to all codes, using consecutive
+             values for all codes of the same length with the base
+             values determined at step 2. Codes that are never used
+             (which have a bit length of zero) must not be assigned a
+             value.
+
+                for (n = 0;  n &lt;= max_code; n++) {
+                    len = tree[n].Len;
+                    if (len != 0) {
+                        tree[n].Code = next_code[len];
+                        next_code[len]++;
+                    }
+
+
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+                }
+
+         Example:
+
+         Consider the alphabet ABCDEFGH, with bit lengths (3, 3, 3, 3,
+         3, 2, 4, 4).  After step 1, we have:
+
+            N      bl_count[N]
+            -      -----------
+            2      1
+            3      5
+            4      2
+
+         Step 2 computes the following next_code values:
+
+            N      next_code[N]
+            -      ------------
+            1      0
+            2      0
+            3      2
+            4      14
+
+         Step 3 produces the following code values:
+
+            Symbol Length   Code
+            ------ ------   ----
+            A       3        010
+            B       3        011
+            C       3        100
+            D       3        101
+            E       3        110
+            F       2         00
+            G       4       1110
+            H       4       1111
+
+      3.2.3. Details of block format
+
+         Each block of compressed data begins with 3 header bits
+         containing the following data:
+
+            first bit       BFINAL
+            next 2 bits     BTYPE
+
+         Note that the header bits do not necessarily begin on a byte
+         boundary, since a block does not necessarily occupy an integral
+         number of bytes.
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+         BFINAL is set if and only if this is the last block of the data
+         set.
+
+         BTYPE specifies how the data are compressed, as follows:
+
+            00 - no compression
+            01 - compressed with fixed Huffman codes
+            10 - compressed with dynamic Huffman codes
+            11 - reserved (error)
+
+         The only difference between the two compressed cases is how the
+         Huffman codes for the literal/length and distance alphabets are
+         defined.
+
+         In all cases, the decoding algorithm for the actual data is as
+         follows:
+
+            do
+               read block header from input stream.
+               if stored with no compression
+                  skip any remaining bits in current partially
+                     processed byte
+                  read LEN and NLEN (see next section)
+                  copy LEN bytes of data to output
+               otherwise
+                  if compressed with dynamic Huffman codes
+                     read representation of code trees (see
+                        subsection below)
+                  loop (until end of block code recognized)
+                     decode literal/length value from input stream
+                     if value &lt; 256
+                        copy value (literal byte) to output stream
+                     otherwise
+                        if value = end of block (256)
+                           break from loop
+                        otherwise (value = 257..285)
+                           decode distance from input stream
+
+                           move backwards distance bytes in the output
+                           stream, and copy length bytes from this
+                           position to the output stream.
+                  end loop
+            while not last block
+
+         Note that a duplicated string reference may refer to a string
+         in a previous block; i.e., the backward distance may cross one
+         or more block boundaries.  However a distance cannot refer past
+         the beginning of the output stream.  (An application using a
+
+
+
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+
+         preset dictionary might discard part of the output stream; a
+         distance can refer to that part of the output stream anyway)
+         Note also that the referenced string may overlap the current
+         position; for example, if the last 2 bytes decoded have values
+         X and Y, a string reference with &lt;length = 5, distance = 2&gt;
+         adds X,Y,X,Y,X to the output stream.
+
+         We now specify each compression method in turn.
+
+      3.2.4. Non-compressed blocks (BTYPE=00)
+
+         Any bits of input up to the next byte boundary are ignored.
+         The rest of the block consists of the following information:
+
+              0   1   2   3   4...
+            +---+---+---+---+================================+
+            |  LEN  | NLEN  |... LEN bytes of literal data...|
+            +---+---+---+---+================================+
+
+         LEN is the number of data bytes in the block.  NLEN is the
+         one's complement of LEN.
+
+      3.2.5. Compressed blocks (length and distance codes)
+
+         As noted above, encoded data blocks in the "deflate" format
+         consist of sequences of symbols drawn from three conceptually
+         distinct alphabets: either literal bytes, from the alphabet of
+         byte values (0..255), or &lt;length, backward distance&gt; pairs,
+         where the length is drawn from (3..258) and the distance is
+         drawn from (1..32,768).  In fact, the literal and length
+         alphabets are merged into a single alphabet (0..285), where
+         values 0..255 represent literal bytes, the value 256 indicates
+         end-of-block, and values 257..285 represent length codes
+         (possibly in conjunction with extra bits following the symbol
+         code) as follows:
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+                 Extra               Extra               Extra
+            Code Bits Length(s) Code Bits Lengths   Code Bits Length(s)
+            ---- ---- ------     ---- ---- -------   ---- ---- -------
+             257   0     3       267   1   15,16     277   4   67-82
+             258   0     4       268   1   17,18     278   4   83-98
+             259   0     5       269   2   19-22     279   4   99-114
+             260   0     6       270   2   23-26     280   4  115-130
+             261   0     7       271   2   27-30     281   5  131-162
+             262   0     8       272   2   31-34     282   5  163-194
+             263   0     9       273   3   35-42     283   5  195-226
+             264   0    10       274   3   43-50     284   5  227-257
+             265   1  11,12      275   3   51-58     285   0    258
+             266   1  13,14      276   3   59-66
+
+         The extra bits should be interpreted as a machine integer
+         stored with the most-significant bit first, e.g., bits 1110
+         represent the value 14.
+
+                  Extra           Extra               Extra
+             Code Bits Dist  Code Bits   Dist     Code Bits Distance
+             ---- ---- ----  ---- ----  ------    ---- ---- --------
+               0   0    1     10   4     33-48    20    9   1025-1536
+               1   0    2     11   4     49-64    21    9   1537-2048
+               2   0    3     12   5     65-96    22   10   2049-3072
+               3   0    4     13   5     97-128   23   10   3073-4096
+               4   1   5,6    14   6    129-192   24   11   4097-6144
+               5   1   7,8    15   6    193-256   25   11   6145-8192
+               6   2   9-12   16   7    257-384   26   12  8193-12288
+               7   2  13-16   17   7    385-512   27   12 12289-16384
+               8   3  17-24   18   8    513-768   28   13 16385-24576
+               9   3  25-32   19   8   769-1024   29   13 24577-32768
+
+      3.2.6. Compression with fixed Huffman codes (BTYPE=01)
+
+         The Huffman codes for the two alphabets are fixed, and are not
+         represented explicitly in the data.  The Huffman code lengths
+         for the literal/length alphabet are:
+
+                   Lit Value    Bits        Codes
+                   ---------    ----        -----
+                     0 - 143     8          00110000 through
+                                            10111111
+                   144 - 255     9          110010000 through
+                                            111111111
+                   256 - 279     7          0000000 through
+                                            0010111
+                   280 - 287     8          11000000 through
+                                            11000111
+
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+         The code lengths are sufficient to generate the actual codes,
+         as described above; we show the codes in the table for added
+         clarity.  Literal/length values 286-287 will never actually
+         occur in the compressed data, but participate in the code
+         construction.
+
+         Distance codes 0-31 are represented by (fixed-length) 5-bit
+         codes, with possible additional bits as shown in the table
+         shown in Paragraph 3.2.5, above.  Note that distance codes 30-
+         31 will never actually occur in the compressed data.
+
+      3.2.7. Compression with dynamic Huffman codes (BTYPE=10)
+
+         The Huffman codes for the two alphabets appear in the block
+         immediately after the header bits and before the actual
+         compressed data, first the literal/length code and then the
+         distance code.  Each code is defined by a sequence of code
+         lengths, as discussed in Paragraph 3.2.2, above.  For even
+         greater compactness, the code length sequences themselves are
+         compressed using a Huffman code.  The alphabet for code lengths
+         is as follows:
+
+               0 - 15: Represent code lengths of 0 - 15
+                   16: Copy the previous code length 3 - 6 times.
+                       The next 2 bits indicate repeat length
+                             (0 = 3, ... , 3 = 6)
+                          Example:  Codes 8, 16 (+2 bits 11),
+                                    16 (+2 bits 10) will expand to
+                                    12 code lengths of 8 (1 + 6 + 5)
+                   17: Repeat a code length of 0 for 3 - 10 times.
+                       (3 bits of length)
+                   18: Repeat a code length of 0 for 11 - 138 times
+                       (7 bits of length)
+
+         A code length of 0 indicates that the corresponding symbol in
+         the literal/length or distance alphabet will not occur in the
+         block, and should not participate in the Huffman code
+         construction algorithm given earlier.  If only one distance
+         code is used, it is encoded using one bit, not zero bits; in
+         this case there is a single code length of one, with one unused
+         code.  One distance code of zero bits means that there are no
+         distance codes used at all (the data is all literals).
+
+         We can now define the format of the block:
+
+               5 Bits: HLIT, # of Literal/Length codes - 257 (257 - 286)
+               5 Bits: HDIST, # of Distance codes - 1        (1 - 32)
+               4 Bits: HCLEN, # of Code Length codes - 4     (4 - 19)
+
+
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+               (HCLEN + 4) x 3 bits: code lengths for the code length
+                  alphabet given just above, in the order: 16, 17, 18,
+                  0, 8, 7, 9, 6, 10, 5, 11, 4, 12, 3, 13, 2, 14, 1, 15
+
+                  These code lengths are interpreted as 3-bit integers
+                  (0-7); as above, a code length of 0 means the
+                  corresponding symbol (literal/length or distance code
+                  length) is not used.
+
+               HLIT + 257 code lengths for the literal/length alphabet,
+                  encoded using the code length Huffman code
+
+               HDIST + 1 code lengths for the distance alphabet,
+                  encoded using the code length Huffman code
+
+               The actual compressed data of the block,
+                  encoded using the literal/length and distance Huffman
+                  codes
+
+               The literal/length symbol 256 (end of data),
+                  encoded using the literal/length Huffman code
+
+         The code length repeat codes can cross from HLIT + 257 to the
+         HDIST + 1 code lengths.  In other words, all code lengths form
+         a single sequence of HLIT + HDIST + 258 values.
+
+   3.3. Compliance
+
+      A compressor may limit further the ranges of values specified in
+      the previous section and still be compliant; for example, it may
+      limit the range of backward pointers to some value smaller than
+      32K.  Similarly, a compressor may limit the size of blocks so that
+      a compressible block fits in memory.
+
+      A compliant decompressor must accept the full range of possible
+      values defined in the previous section, and must accept blocks of
+      arbitrary size.
+
+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-4" href="#section-4">4</a>. Compression algorithm details</span>
+
+   While it is the intent of this document to define the "deflate"
+   compressed data format without reference to any particular
+   compression algorithm, the format is related to the compressed
+   formats produced by LZ77 (Lempel-Ziv 1977, see reference [<a href="#ref-2" title="&quot;A Universal Algorithm for Sequential Data Compression&quot;">2</a>] below);
+   since many variations of LZ77 are patented, it is strongly
+   recommended that the implementor of a compressor follow the general
+   algorithm presented here, which is known not to be patented per se.
+   The material in this section is not part of the definition of the
+
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+   specification per se, and a compressor need not follow it in order to
+   be compliant.
+
+   The compressor terminates a block when it determines that starting a
+   new block with fresh trees would be useful, or when the block size
+   fills up the compressor's block buffer.
+
+   The compressor uses a chained hash table to find duplicated strings,
+   using a hash function that operates on 3-byte sequences.  At any
+   given point during compression, let XYZ be the next 3 input bytes to
+   be examined (not necessarily all different, of course).  First, the
+   compressor examines the hash chain for XYZ.  If the chain is empty,
+   the compressor simply writes out X as a literal byte and advances one
+   byte in the input.  If the hash chain is not empty, indicating that
+   the sequence XYZ (or, if we are unlucky, some other 3 bytes with the
+   same hash function value) has occurred recently, the compressor
+   compares all strings on the XYZ hash chain with the actual input data
+   sequence starting at the current point, and selects the longest
+   match.
+
+   The compressor searches the hash chains starting with the most recent
+   strings, to favor small distances and thus take advantage of the
+   Huffman encoding.  The hash chains are singly linked. There are no
+   deletions from the hash chains; the algorithm simply discards matches
+   that are too old.  To avoid a worst-case situation, very long hash
+   chains are arbitrarily truncated at a certain length, determined by a
+   run-time parameter.
+
+   To improve overall compression, the compressor optionally defers the
+   selection of matches ("lazy matching"): after a match of length N has
+   been found, the compressor searches for a longer match starting at
+   the next input byte.  If it finds a longer match, it truncates the
+   previous match to a length of one (thus producing a single literal
+   byte) and then emits the longer match.  Otherwise, it emits the
+   original match, and, as described above, advances N bytes before
+   continuing.
+
+   Run-time parameters also control this "lazy match" procedure.  If
+   compression ratio is most important, the compressor attempts a
+   complete second search regardless of the length of the first match.
+   In the normal case, if the current match is "long enough", the
+   compressor reduces the search for a longer match, thus speeding up
+   the process.  If speed is most important, the compressor inserts new
+   strings in the hash table only when no match was found, or when the
+   match is not "too long".  This degrades the compression ratio but
+   saves time since there are both fewer insertions and fewer searches.
+
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+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-5" href="#section-5">5</a>. References</span>
+
+   [<a name="ref-1" id="ref-1">1</a>] Huffman, D. A., "A Method for the Construction of Minimum
+       Redundancy Codes", Proceedings of the Institute of Radio
+       Engineers, September 1952, Volume 40, Number 9, pp. 1098-1101.
+
+   [<a name="ref-2" id="ref-2">2</a>] Ziv J., Lempel A., "A Universal Algorithm for Sequential Data
+       Compression", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 23,
+       No. 3, pp. 337-343.
+
+   [<a name="ref-3" id="ref-3">3</a>] Gailly, J.-L., and Adler, M., ZLIB documentation and sources,
+       available in <a href="ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/doc/">ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/doc/</a>
+
+   [<a name="ref-4" id="ref-4">4</a>] Gailly, J.-L., and Adler, M., GZIP documentation and sources,
+       available as gzip-*.tar in <a href="ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/">ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/</a>
+
+   [<a name="ref-5" id="ref-5">5</a>] Schwartz, E. S., and Kallick, B. "Generating a canonical prefix
+       encoding." Comm. ACM, 7,3 (Mar. 1964), pp. 166-169.
+
+   [<a name="ref-6" id="ref-6">6</a>] Hirschberg and Lelewer, "Efficient decoding of prefix codes,"
+       Comm. ACM, 33,4, April 1990, pp. 449-459.
+
+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-6" href="#section-6">6</a>. Security Considerations</span>
+
+   Any data compression method involves the reduction of redundancy in
+   the data.  Consequently, any corruption of the data is likely to have
+   severe effects and be difficult to correct.  Uncompressed text, on
+   the other hand, will probably still be readable despite the presence
+   of some corrupted bytes.
+
+   It is recommended that systems using this data format provide some
+   means of validating the integrity of the compressed data.  See
+   reference [<a href="#ref-3" title="ZLIB documentation and sources">3</a>], for example.
+
+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-7" href="#section-7">7</a>. Source code</span>
+
+   Source code for a C language implementation of a "deflate" compliant
+   compressor and decompressor is available within the zlib package at
+   <a href="ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/zlib/">ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/zlib/</a>.
+
+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-8" href="#section-8">8</a>. Acknowledgements</span>
+
+   Trademarks cited in this document are the property of their
+   respective owners.
+
+   Phil Katz designed the deflate format.  Jean-Loup Gailly and Mark
+   Adler wrote the related software described in this specification.
+   Glenn Randers-Pehrson converted this document to RFC and HTML format.
+
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+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-9" href="#section-9">9</a>. Author's Address</span>
+
+   L. Peter Deutsch
+   Aladdin Enterprises
+   203 Santa Margarita Ave.
+   Menlo Park, CA 94025
+
+   Phone: (415) 322-0103 (AM only)
+   FAX:   (415) 322-1734
+   EMail: &lt;ghost@aladdin.com&gt;
+
+   Questions about the technical content of this specification can be
+   sent by email to:
+
+   Jean-Loup Gailly &lt;gzip@prep.ai.mit.edu&gt; and
+   Mark Adler &lt;madler@alumni.caltech.edu&gt;
+
+   Editorial comments on this specification can be sent by email to:
+
+   L. Peter Deutsch &lt;ghost@aladdin.com&gt; and
+   Glenn Randers-Pehrson &lt;randeg@alumni.rpi.edu&gt;
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+<span class="pre noprint docinfo">                                                           INFORMATIONAL</span><br />
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+Network Working Group                                         P. Deutsch
+Request for Comments: 1952                           Aladdin Enterprises
+Category: Informational                                         May 1996
+
+
+               <span class="h1">GZIP file format specification version 4.3</span>
+
+Status of This Memo
+
+   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  This memo
+   does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of
+   this memo is unlimited.
+
+IESG Note:
+
+   The IESG takes no position on the validity of any Intellectual
+   Property Rights statements contained in this document.
+
+Notices
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+   Copyright (c) 1996 L. Peter Deutsch
+
+   Permission is granted to copy and distribute this document for any
+   purpose and without charge, including translations into other
+   languages and incorporation into compilations, provided that the
+   copyright notice and this notice are preserved, and that any
+   substantive changes or deletions from the original are clearly
+   marked.
+
+   A pointer to the latest version of this and related documentation in
+   HTML format can be found at the URL
+   &lt;<a href="ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/zdoc-index.html">ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/zdoc-index.html</a>&gt;.
+
+Abstract
+
+   This specification defines a lossless compressed data format that is
+   compatible with the widely used GZIP utility.  The format includes a
+   cyclic redundancy check value for detecting data corruption.  The
+   format presently uses the DEFLATE method of compression but can be
+   easily extended to use other compression methods.  The format can be
+   implemented readily in a manner not covered by patents.
+
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+
+Table of Contents
+
+   <a href="#section-1">1</a>. Introduction ................................................... <a href="#page-2">2</a>
+      <a href="#section-1.1">1.1</a>. Purpose ................................................... <a href="#page-2">2</a>
+      <a href="#section-1.2">1.2</a>. Intended audience ......................................... <a href="#page-3">3</a>
+      <a href="#section-1.3">1.3</a>. Scope ..................................................... <a href="#page-3">3</a>
+      <a href="#section-1.4">1.4</a>. Compliance ................................................ <a href="#page-3">3</a>
+      <a href="#section-1.5">1.5</a>. Definitions of terms and conventions used ................. <a href="#page-3">3</a>
+      <a href="#section-1.6">1.6</a>. Changes from previous versions ............................ <a href="#page-3">3</a>
+   <a href="#section-2">2</a>. Detailed specification ......................................... <a href="#page-4">4</a>
+      <a href="#section-2.1">2.1</a>. Overall conventions ....................................... <a href="#page-4">4</a>
+      <a href="#section-2.2">2.2</a>. File format ............................................... <a href="#page-5">5</a>
+      <a href="#section-2.3">2.3</a>. Member format ............................................. <a href="#page-5">5</a>
+          <a href="#section-2.3.1">2.3.1</a>. Member header and trailer ........................... <a href="#page-6">6</a>
+              <a href="#section-2.3.1.1">2.3.1.1</a>. Extra field ................................... <a href="#page-8">8</a>
+              <a href="#section-2.3.1.2">2.3.1.2</a>. Compliance .................................... <a href="#page-9">9</a>
+      <a href="#section-3">3</a>. References .................................................. <a href="#page-9">9</a>
+      <a href="#section-4">4</a>. Security Considerations .................................... <a href="#page-10">10</a>
+      <a href="#section-5">5</a>. Acknowledgements ........................................... <a href="#page-10">10</a>
+      <a href="#section-6">6</a>. Author's Address ........................................... <a href="#page-10">10</a>
+      <a href="#section-7">7</a>. Appendix: Jean-Loup Gailly's gzip utility .................. <a href="#page-11">11</a>
+      <a href="#section-8">8</a>. Appendix: Sample CRC Code .................................. <a href="#page-11">11</a>
+
+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-1" href="#section-1">1</a>. Introduction</span>
+
+   1.1. Purpose
+
+      The purpose of this specification is to define a lossless
+      compressed data format that:
+
+          * Is independent of CPU type, operating system, file system,
+            and character set, and hence can be used for interchange;
+          * Can compress or decompress a data stream (as opposed to a
+            randomly accessible file) to produce another data stream,
+            using only an a priori bounded amount of intermediate
+            storage, and hence can be used in data communications or
+            similar structures such as Unix filters;
+          * Compresses data with efficiency comparable to the best
+            currently available general-purpose compression methods,
+            and in particular considerably better than the "compress"
+            program;
+          * Can be implemented readily in a manner not covered by
+            patents, and hence can be practiced freely;
+          * Is compatible with the file format produced by the current
+            widely used gzip utility, in that conforming decompressors
+            will be able to read data produced by the existing gzip
+            compressor.
+
+
+
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+
+      The data format defined by this specification does not attempt to:
+
+          * Provide random access to compressed data;
+          * Compress specialized data (e.g., raster graphics) as well as
+            the best currently available specialized algorithms.
+
+   1.2. Intended audience
+
+      This specification is intended for use by implementors of software
+      to compress data into gzip format and/or decompress data from gzip
+      format.
+
+      The text of the specification assumes a basic background in
+      programming at the level of bits and other primitive data
+      representations.
+
+   1.3. Scope
+
+      The specification specifies a compression method and a file format
+      (the latter assuming only that a file can store a sequence of
+      arbitrary bytes).  It does not specify any particular interface to
+      a file system or anything about character sets or encodings
+      (except for file names and comments, which are optional).
+
+   1.4. Compliance
+
+      Unless otherwise indicated below, a compliant decompressor must be
+      able to accept and decompress any file that conforms to all the
+      specifications presented here; a compliant compressor must produce
+      files that conform to all the specifications presented here.  The
+      material in the appendices is not part of the specification per se
+      and is not relevant to compliance.
+
+   1.5. Definitions of terms and conventions used
+
+      byte: 8 bits stored or transmitted as a unit (same as an octet).
+      (For this specification, a byte is exactly 8 bits, even on
+      machines which store a character on a number of bits different
+      from 8.)  See below for the numbering of bits within a byte.
+
+   1.6. Changes from previous versions
+
+      There have been no technical changes to the gzip format since
+      version 4.1 of this specification.  In version 4.2, some
+      terminology was changed, and the sample CRC code was rewritten for
+      clarity and to eliminate the requirement for the caller to do pre-
+      and post-conditioning.  Version 4.3 is a conversion of the
+      specification to RFC style.
+
+
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+
+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-2" href="#section-2">2</a>. Detailed specification</span>
+
+   2.1. Overall conventions
+
+      In the diagrams below, a box like this:
+
+         +---+
+         |   | &lt;-- the vertical bars might be missing
+         +---+
+
+      represents one byte; a box like this:
+
+         +==============+
+         |              |
+         +==============+
+
+      represents a variable number of bytes.
+
+      Bytes stored within a computer do not have a "bit order", since
+      they are always treated as a unit.  However, a byte considered as
+      an integer between 0 and 255 does have a most- and least-
+      significant bit, and since we write numbers with the most-
+      significant digit on the left, we also write bytes with the most-
+      significant bit on the left.  In the diagrams below, we number the
+      bits of a byte so that bit 0 is the least-significant bit, i.e.,
+      the bits are numbered:
+
+         +--------+
+         |76543210|
+         +--------+
+
+      This document does not address the issue of the order in which
+      bits of a byte are transmitted on a bit-sequential medium, since
+      the data format described here is byte- rather than bit-oriented.
+
+      Within a computer, a number may occupy multiple bytes.  All
+      multi-byte numbers in the format described here are stored with
+      the least-significant byte first (at the lower memory address).
+      For example, the decimal number 520 is stored as:
+
+             0        1
+         +--------+--------+
+         |00001000|00000010|
+         +--------+--------+
+          ^        ^
+          |        |
+          |        + more significant byte = 2 x 256
+          + less significant byte = 8
+
+
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+
+   2.2. File format
+
+      A gzip file consists of a series of "members" (compressed data
+      sets).  The format of each member is specified in the following
+      section.  The members simply appear one after another in the file,
+      with no additional information before, between, or after them.
+
+   2.3. Member format
+
+      Each member has the following structure:
+
+         +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
+         |ID1|ID2|CM |FLG|     MTIME     |XFL|OS | (more--&gt;)
+         +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
+
+      (if FLG.FEXTRA set)
+
+         +---+---+=================================+
+         | XLEN  |...XLEN bytes of "extra field"...| (more--&gt;)
+         +---+---+=================================+
+
+      (if FLG.FNAME set)
+
+         +=========================================+
+         |...original file name, zero-terminated...| (more--&gt;)
+         +=========================================+
+
+      (if FLG.FCOMMENT set)
+
+         +===================================+
+         |...file comment, zero-terminated...| (more--&gt;)
+         +===================================+
+
+      (if FLG.FHCRC set)
+
+         +---+---+
+         | CRC16 |
+         +---+---+
+
+         +=======================+
+         |...compressed blocks...| (more--&gt;)
+         +=======================+
+
+           0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7
+         +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
+         |     CRC32     |     ISIZE     |
+         +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
+
+
+
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+
+      2.3.1. Member header and trailer
+
+         ID1 (IDentification 1)
+         ID2 (IDentification 2)
+            These have the fixed values ID1 = 31 (0x1f, \037), ID2 = 139
+            (0x8b, \213), to identify the file as being in gzip format.
+
+         CM (Compression Method)
+            This identifies the compression method used in the file.  CM
+            = 0-7 are reserved.  CM = 8 denotes the "deflate"
+            compression method, which is the one customarily used by
+            gzip and which is documented elsewhere.
+
+         FLG (FLaGs)
+            This flag byte is divided into individual bits as follows:
+
+               bit 0   FTEXT
+               bit 1   FHCRC
+               bit 2   FEXTRA
+               bit 3   FNAME
+               bit 4   FCOMMENT
+               bit 5   reserved
+               bit 6   reserved
+               bit 7   reserved
+
+            If FTEXT is set, the file is probably ASCII text.  This is
+            an optional indication, which the compressor may set by
+            checking a small amount of the input data to see whether any
+            non-ASCII characters are present.  In case of doubt, FTEXT
+            is cleared, indicating binary data. For systems which have
+            different file formats for ascii text and binary data, the
+            decompressor can use FTEXT to choose the appropriate format.
+            We deliberately do not specify the algorithm used to set
+            this bit, since a compressor always has the option of
+            leaving it cleared and a decompressor always has the option
+            of ignoring it and letting some other program handle issues
+            of data conversion.
+
+            If FHCRC is set, a CRC16 for the gzip header is present,
+            immediately before the compressed data. The CRC16 consists
+            of the two least significant bytes of the CRC32 for all
+            bytes of the gzip header up to and not including the CRC16.
+            [The FHCRC bit was never set by versions of gzip up to
+            1.2.4, even though it was documented with a different
+            meaning in gzip 1.2.4.]
+
+            If FEXTRA is set, optional extra fields are present, as
+            described in a following section.
+
+
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+            If FNAME is set, an original file name is present,
+            terminated by a zero byte.  The name must consist of ISO
+            8859-1 (LATIN-1) characters; on operating systems using
+            EBCDIC or any other character set for file names, the name
+            must be translated to the ISO LATIN-1 character set.  This
+            is the original name of the file being compressed, with any
+            directory components removed, and, if the file being
+            compressed is on a file system with case insensitive names,
+            forced to lower case. There is no original file name if the
+            data was compressed from a source other than a named file;
+            for example, if the source was stdin on a Unix system, there
+            is no file name.
+
+            If FCOMMENT is set, a zero-terminated file comment is
+            present.  This comment is not interpreted; it is only
+            intended for human consumption.  The comment must consist of
+            ISO 8859-1 (LATIN-1) characters.  Line breaks should be
+            denoted by a single line feed character (10 decimal).
+
+            Reserved FLG bits must be zero.
+
+         MTIME (Modification TIME)
+            This gives the most recent modification time of the original
+            file being compressed.  The time is in Unix format, i.e.,
+            seconds since 00:00:00 GMT, Jan.  1, 1970.  (Note that this
+            may cause problems for MS-DOS and other systems that use
+            local rather than Universal time.)  If the compressed data
+            did not come from a file, MTIME is set to the time at which
+            compression started.  MTIME = 0 means no time stamp is
+            available.
+
+         XFL (eXtra FLags)
+            These flags are available for use by specific compression
+            methods.  The "deflate" method (CM = 8) sets these flags as
+            follows:
+
+               XFL = 2 - compressor used maximum compression,
+                         slowest algorithm
+               XFL = 4 - compressor used fastest algorithm
+
+         OS (Operating System)
+            This identifies the type of file system on which compression
+            took place.  This may be useful in determining end-of-line
+            convention for text files.  The currently defined values are
+            as follows:
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+                 0 - FAT filesystem (MS-DOS, OS/2, NT/Win32)
+                 1 - Amiga
+                 2 - VMS (or OpenVMS)
+                 3 - Unix
+                 4 - VM/CMS
+                 5 - Atari TOS
+                 6 - HPFS filesystem (OS/2, NT)
+                 7 - Macintosh
+                 8 - Z-System
+                 9 - CP/M
+                10 - TOPS-20
+                11 - NTFS filesystem (NT)
+                12 - QDOS
+                13 - Acorn RISCOS
+               255 - unknown
+
+         XLEN (eXtra LENgth)
+            If FLG.FEXTRA is set, this gives the length of the optional
+            extra field.  See below for details.
+
+         CRC32 (CRC-32)
+            This contains a Cyclic Redundancy Check value of the
+            uncompressed data computed according to CRC-32 algorithm
+            used in the ISO 3309 standard and in <a href="#section-8.1.1.6.2">section 8.1.1.6.2</a> of
+            ITU-T recommendation V.42.  (See <a href="http://www.iso.ch">http://www.iso.ch</a> for
+            ordering ISO documents. See gopher://info.itu.ch for an
+            online version of ITU-T V.42.)
+
+         ISIZE (Input SIZE)
+            This contains the size of the original (uncompressed) input
+            data modulo 2^32.
+
+      2.3.1.1. Extra field
+
+         If the FLG.FEXTRA bit is set, an "extra field" is present in
+         the header, with total length XLEN bytes.  It consists of a
+         series of subfields, each of the form:
+
+            +---+---+---+---+==================================+
+            |SI1|SI2|  LEN  |... LEN bytes of subfield data ...|
+            +---+---+---+---+==================================+
+
+         SI1 and SI2 provide a subfield ID, typically two ASCII letters
+         with some mnemonic value.  Jean-Loup Gailly
+         &lt;gzip@prep.ai.mit.edu&gt; is maintaining a registry of subfield
+         IDs; please send him any subfield ID you wish to use.  Subfield
+         IDs with SI2 = 0 are reserved for future use.  The following
+         IDs are currently defined:
+
+
+
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+
+            SI1         SI2         Data
+            ----------  ----------  ----
+            0x41 ('A')  0x70 ('P')  Apollo file type information
+
+         LEN gives the length of the subfield data, excluding the 4
+         initial bytes.
+
+      2.3.1.2. Compliance
+
+         A compliant compressor must produce files with correct ID1,
+         ID2, CM, CRC32, and ISIZE, but may set all the other fields in
+         the fixed-length part of the header to default values (255 for
+         OS, 0 for all others).  The compressor must set all reserved
+         bits to zero.
+
+         A compliant decompressor must check ID1, ID2, and CM, and
+         provide an error indication if any of these have incorrect
+         values.  It must examine FEXTRA/XLEN, FNAME, FCOMMENT and FHCRC
+         at least so it can skip over the optional fields if they are
+         present.  It need not examine any other part of the header or
+         trailer; in particular, a decompressor may ignore FTEXT and OS
+         and always produce binary output, and still be compliant.  A
+         compliant decompressor must give an error indication if any
+         reserved bit is non-zero, since such a bit could indicate the
+         presence of a new field that would cause subsequent data to be
+         interpreted incorrectly.
+
+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-3" href="#section-3">3</a>. References</span>
+
+   [<a name="ref-1" id="ref-1">1</a>] "Information Processing - 8-bit single-byte coded graphic
+       character sets - Part 1: Latin alphabet No.1" (ISO 8859-1:1987).
+       The ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) character set is a superset of 7-bit
+       ASCII. Files defining this character set are available as
+       iso_8859-1.* in <a href="ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/">ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/</a>
+
+   [<a name="ref-2" id="ref-2">2</a>] ISO 3309
+
+   [<a name="ref-3" id="ref-3">3</a>] ITU-T recommendation V.42
+
+   [<a name="ref-4" id="ref-4">4</a>] Deutsch, L.P.,"DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification",
+       available in <a href="ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/doc/">ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/doc/</a>
+
+   [<a name="ref-5" id="ref-5">5</a>] Gailly, J.-L., GZIP documentation, available as gzip-*.tar in
+       <a href="ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/">ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/</a>
+
+   [<a name="ref-6" id="ref-6">6</a>] Sarwate, D.V., "Computation of Cyclic Redundancy Checks via Table
+       Look-Up", Communications of the ACM, 31(8), pp.1008-1013.
+
+
+
+
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+
+   [<a name="ref-7" id="ref-7">7</a>] Schwaderer, W.D., "CRC Calculation", April 85 PC Tech Journal,
+       pp.118-133.
+
+   [<a name="ref-8" id="ref-8">8</a>] <a href="ftp://ftp.adelaide.edu.au/pub/rocksoft/papers/crc_v3.txt">ftp://ftp.adelaide.edu.au/pub/rocksoft/papers/crc_v3.txt</a>,
+       describing the CRC concept.
+
+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-4" href="#section-4">4</a>. Security Considerations</span>
+
+   Any data compression method involves the reduction of redundancy in
+   the data.  Consequently, any corruption of the data is likely to have
+   severe effects and be difficult to correct.  Uncompressed text, on
+   the other hand, will probably still be readable despite the presence
+   of some corrupted bytes.
+
+   It is recommended that systems using this data format provide some
+   means of validating the integrity of the compressed data, such as by
+   setting and checking the CRC-32 check value.
+
+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-5" href="#section-5">5</a>. Acknowledgements</span>
+
+   Trademarks cited in this document are the property of their
+   respective owners.
+
+   Jean-Loup Gailly designed the gzip format and wrote, with Mark Adler,
+   the related software described in this specification.  Glenn
+   Randers-Pehrson converted this document to RFC and HTML format.
+
+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-6" href="#section-6">6</a>. Author's Address</span>
+
+   L. Peter Deutsch
+   Aladdin Enterprises
+   203 Santa Margarita Ave.
+   Menlo Park, CA 94025
+
+   Phone: (415) 322-0103 (AM only)
+   FAX:   (415) 322-1734
+   EMail: &lt;ghost@aladdin.com&gt;
+
+   Questions about the technical content of this specification can be
+   sent by email to:
+
+   Jean-Loup Gailly &lt;gzip@prep.ai.mit.edu&gt; and
+   Mark Adler &lt;madler@alumni.caltech.edu&gt;
+
+   Editorial comments on this specification can be sent by email to:
+
+   L. Peter Deutsch &lt;ghost@aladdin.com&gt; and
+   Glenn Randers-Pehrson &lt;randeg@alumni.rpi.edu&gt;
+
+
+
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+
+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-7" href="#section-7">7</a>. Appendix: Jean-Loup Gailly's gzip utility</span>
+
+   The most widely used implementation of gzip compression, and the
+   original documentation on which this specification is based, were
+   created by Jean-Loup Gailly &lt;gzip@prep.ai.mit.edu&gt;.  Since this
+   implementation is a de facto standard, we mention some more of its
+   features here.  Again, the material in this section is not part of
+   the specification per se, and implementations need not follow it to
+   be compliant.
+
+   When compressing or decompressing a file, gzip preserves the
+   protection, ownership, and modification time attributes on the local
+   file system, since there is no provision for representing protection
+   attributes in the gzip file format itself.  Since the file format
+   includes a modification time, the gzip decompressor provides a
+   command line switch that assigns the modification time from the file,
+   rather than the local modification time of the compressed input, to
+   the decompressed output.
+
+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-8" href="#section-8">8</a>. Appendix: Sample CRC Code</span>
+
+   The following sample code represents a practical implementation of
+   the CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check). (See also ISO 3309 and ITU-T V.42
+   for a formal specification.)
+
+   The sample code is in the ANSI C programming language. Non C users
+   may find it easier to read with these hints:
+
+      &amp;      Bitwise AND operator.
+      ^      Bitwise exclusive-OR operator.
+      &gt;&gt;     Bitwise right shift operator. When applied to an
+             unsigned quantity, as here, right shift inserts zero
+             bit(s) at the left.
+      !      Logical NOT operator.
+      ++     "n++" increments the variable n.
+      0xNNN  0x introduces a hexadecimal (base 16) constant.
+             Suffix L indicates a long value (at least 32 bits).
+
+      /* Table of CRCs of all 8-bit messages. */
+      unsigned long crc_table[256];
+
+      /* Flag: has the table been computed? Initially false. */
+      int crc_table_computed = 0;
+
+      /* Make the table for a fast CRC. */
+      void make_crc_table(void)
+      {
+        unsigned long c;
+
+
+
+<span class="grey">Deutsch                      Informational                     [Page 11]</span></pre>
+<hr class='noprint' style='width: 96ex;' align='left'/><!--NewPage--><pre class='newpage'><a name="page-12" id="page-12" href="#page-12" class="invisible"> </a>
+<span class="grey"><a href="./rfc1952">RFC 1952</a>             GZIP File Format Specification             May 1996</span>
+
+
+        int n, k;
+        for (n = 0; n &lt; 256; n++) {
+          c = (unsigned long) n;
+          for (k = 0; k &lt; 8; k++) {
+            if (c &amp; 1) {
+              c = 0xedb88320L ^ (c &gt;&gt; 1);
+            } else {
+              c = c &gt;&gt; 1;
+            }
+          }
+          crc_table[n] = c;
+        }
+        crc_table_computed = 1;
+      }
+
+      /*
+         Update a running crc with the bytes buf[0..len-1] and return
+       the updated crc. The crc should be initialized to zero. Pre- and
+       post-conditioning (one's complement) is performed within this
+       function so it shouldn't be done by the caller. Usage example:
+
+         unsigned long crc = 0L;
+
+         while (read_buffer(buffer, length) != EOF) {
+           crc = update_crc(crc, buffer, length);
+         }
+         if (crc != original_crc) error();
+      */
+      unsigned long update_crc(unsigned long crc,
+                      unsigned char *buf, int len)
+      {
+        unsigned long c = crc ^ 0xffffffffL;
+        int n;
+
+        if (!crc_table_computed)
+          make_crc_table();
+        for (n = 0; n &lt; len; n++) {
+          c = crc_table[(c ^ buf[n]) &amp; 0xff] ^ (c &gt;&gt; 8);
+        }
+        return c ^ 0xffffffffL;
+      }
+
+      /* Return the CRC of the bytes buf[0..len-1]. */
+      unsigned long crc(unsigned char *buf, int len)
+      {
+        return update_crc(0L, buf, len);
+      }
+
+
+
+
+Deutsch                      Informational                     [Page 12]
+
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