fopen a gzip'd file???

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From: James Smith
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 00:00

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Hi,
   I'm wondering if you can read/write to/from a compressed or gzip'd file
like you can with perl.  e.g. OPEN(IDNETIFIER,"gzip filename.gz|").
I have to do text processing on VERY large files and would like to preserve
as much diskspace as possible.  Currently i start a gzcat into a named pipe
and have the C program open and read from the pipe.  Does anyone know of
a gcc contruct that could do this?
                                    Thanks
                                    James Smith

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