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/*
 * Copyright (c) Ian F. Darwin, http://www.darwinsys.com/, 1996-2002.
 * All rights reserved. Software written by Ian F. Darwin and others.
 * $Id: LICENSE,v 1.8 2004/02/09 03:33:38 ian Exp $
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import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream;

/**
 * Read some data from a gzip file.
 * 
 * @author Ian F. Darwin, http://www.darwinsys.com/
 * @version $Id: ReadGZIP.java,v 1.4 2004/03/06 20:54:38 ian Exp $
 */
public class ReadGZIP {
    public static void main(String[] argv) throws IOException {
        String FILENAME = "file.txt.gz";

        // Since there are 4 constructor calls here, I wrote them out in full.
        // In real life you would probably nest these constructor calls.
        FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream(FILENAME);
        GZIPInputStream gzis = new GZIPInputStream(fin);
        InputStreamReader xover = new InputStreamReader(gzis);
        BufferedReader is = new BufferedReader(xover);

        String line;
        // Now read lines of text: the BufferedReader puts them in lines,
        // the InputStreamReader does Unicode conversion, and the
        // GZipInputStream "gunzip"s the data from the FileInputStream.
        while ((line = is.readLine()) != null)
            System.out.println("Read: " + line);
    }
}