I recently needed to un-gzip (gUnzip?) a large amount of files programatically and eventually ended up with the class/library posted below.
With the GZipStream (.NET / dot net), I had seen a lot of examples compressing and decompressing strings in memory, but I needed the straight-forward, simple method of just compressing and inflating/decompressing a file (in the simplest manner).
I made the buffer size modifiable to allow you to customize the amount of RAM needed for the process.
In all of this, I discovered the proper way to name a .gz file is the name of the contents (1 file) plus the extension .gz.
Example: manish.txt becomes manish.txt.gz.
This helps tools like WinZip decipher the contents as that .gz name is used when inflating/decompressing.
With this class, you can compress and decompress with or without the output filenames.
I originally posted the C# (csharp) code here, but it was a bit sloppy, so I zipped the project (with WinZip (ha ha)).
Download the project here.
using System.IO.Compression;
Here is a tester for the library:
