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.Dd January 15, 2017
.Dt COMPRESS 3
.Os
.
.Sh NAME
.Nm compress ,
.Nm compress2
.Nd compress source buffer into destination buffer
.
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libz
.
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In zlib.h
.
.Ft int
.Fo compress
.Fa "Bytef *dest"
.Fa "uLongf *destLen"
.Fa "const Bytef *source"
.Fa "uLong sourceLen"
.Fc
.
.Ft int
.Fo compress2
.Fa "Bytef *dest"
.Fa "uLongf *destLen"
.Fa "const Bytef *source"
.Fa "uLong sourceLen"
.Fa "int level"
.Fc
.
.Sh DESCRIPTION
Compresses the source buffer into the destination buffer.
.Fa sourceLen
is the byte length of the source buffer.
Upon entry,
.Fa destLen
is the total size of the destination buffer,
which must be at least the value returned by
.Fn compressBound sourceLen .
Upon exit,
.Fa destLen
is the actual size of the compressed data.
.
.Pp
.Fn compress
is equivalent to
.Fn compress2
with a
.Fa level
parameter of
.Dv Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION .
.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
.Fn compress
and
.Fn compress2
return
.Dv Z_OK
on success,
.Dv Z_MEM_ERROR
if there was not enough memory,
.Dv Z_BUF_ERROR
if there was not enough room in the output buffer,
.Dv Z_STREAM_ERROR
if the
.Fa level
parameter is invalid.
.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr compressBound 3 ,
.Xr deflateInit 3 ,
.Xr uncompress 3
.
.Sh HISTORY
This manual page was converted from
.In zlib.h
to mdoc format by
.An June McEnroe Aq Mt june@causal.agency .
.
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Jean-loup Gailly Aq Mt jloup@gzip.org
.An Mark Adler Aq Mt madler@alumni.caltech.edu
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