Data Format
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... The purpose of this specification is to define a lossless
compressed data format that:
* Is independent of CPU type, operating system ...
... compressor.
The data format defined by this specification does not attempt to:
* Allow random access ...
... bits of a byte are transmitted on a bit-sequential medium,
since the final data format described here is byte- rather than
bit ...
... While it is the intent of this document to define the "deflate"
compressed data format without reference to any particular
compression algorithm, the format is related to the compressed
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... of some corrupted bytes.
It is recommended that systems using this data format provide some
means of validating the integrity of the compressed data. See
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