Gzstream is a small C++ library, basically just a wrapper, that provides the functionality of the zlib C-library in a C++ iostream. It is freely available under the LGPL license. Gzstream has been written by Deepak Bandyopadhyay and Lutz Kettner at the Computational Geometry Group at UNC Chapel Hill. WWW: http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/compgeom/gzstream/