.Dd January 15, 2017
.Dt GZGETC 3
.Os
.
.Sh NAME
.Nm gzgetc
.Nd get character from compressed file
.
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libz
.
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In zlib.h
.Ft int
.Fn gzgetc "gzFile file"
.
.Sh DESCRIPTION
Reads one byte from the compressed file.
This is implemented as a macro for speed.
As such,
it does not do all of the checking
the other functions do.
I.e.\&
it does not check to see if
.Fa file
is
.Dv NULL ,
nor whether the structure
.Fa file
points to has been clobbered or not.
.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
.Fn gzgetc
returns the byte
or -1 in case of
end of file
or error.
.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr gzeof 3 ,
.Xr gzerror 3 ,
.Xr gzgets 3 ,
.Xr gzopen 3 ,
.Xr gzread 3 ,
.Xr gzungetc 3
.
.Sh HISTORY
This manual page was converted from
.In zlib.h
to mdoc format by
.An C. McEnroe Aq Mt june@causal.agency .
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.Sh AUTHORS
.An Jean-loup Gailly Aq Mt jloup@gzip.org
.An Mark Adler Aq Mt madler@alumni.caltech.edu