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diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/IO/Compress/FAQ.pod b/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/IO/Compress/FAQ.pod index 671824dc15f..7f51b6c4c15 100644 --- a/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/IO/Compress/FAQ.pod +++ b/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/IO/Compress/FAQ.pod @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ L<http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1952.html> The primary site for gzip is F<http://www.gzip.org>. -=head2 Dealing with Concatenated gzip files +=head2 Dealing with concatenated gzip files If the gunzip program encounters a file containing multiple gzip files concatenated together it will automatically uncompress them all. @@ -227,6 +227,17 @@ include the C<MultiStream> option, as shown below abc def +=head2 Reading bgzip files with IO::Uncompress::Gunzip + +A C<bgzip> file consists of a series of valid gzip-compliant data streams +concatenated together. To read a file created by C<bgzip> with +C<IO::Uncompress::Gunzip> use the C<MultiStream> option as shown in the +previous section. + +See the section titled "The BGZF compression format" in +F<http://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/SAMv1.pdf> for a definition of +C<bgzip>. + =head1 ZLIB =head2 Zlib Resources @@ -665,7 +676,7 @@ See the Changes file. =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE -Copyright (c) 2005-2014 Paul Marquess. All rights reserved. +Copyright (c) 2005-2015 Paul Marquess. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. |