An implementation of a DEFLATE-compliant decompressor, based on RFCs 1951 (for DEFLATE) and 1952 (for the gzip file format).
Simply clone the repo and run make in the directory to build the unzip utility.
Command Format: ./ryunzip [-v] <file>.
The -v flag indicates verbosity; the command will print out the details of the operation as it unzips the file.
The testing framework tests the files in the tests/ folder and moves them to tests/passed/ if they pass. To add tests, add the text files you wish to test to tests/ as <name>.txt.
To test all the currently unpassed tests, use make test.
To test a single text file (<name>.txt), use make test-<name> or make vtest-<name> (to see the verbose output of the ryunzip program).
Use make reset-test to reset all of the tests (move them out from tests/passed back to tests/).
It has only been tested on ASCII text files at the moment, and is untested as of yet on blocks with BTYPE=00. Nevertheless, it demonstrates all the key concepts of the DEFLATE algorithm (which is not used in BTYPE 00).
See a full description here: https://rahulyesantharao.com/blog/posts/compression-a-deep-dive-into-gzip.