Background I wrote this as the first piece of my WikiBot Script to permit gZiped http data when communicating with the server. I hated the idea of writing the data to the harddrive just to run 7zip to decompress the data I had in memory. I found zlib but it is a pain to implement. I then discovered that gZip has an Standard IO mode that I can pipe the data directly to the program using the console streams. SWEET! And thus my gZip UDF is born. gZip You can aquire gZip from www.gzip.org or d