zlibcat is a utility that reads from standard input, performs zlib compression, and writes to standard output.
unzlibcat uncompresses data.
Example usage:
$ echo "This is a repetitive string. This is a repetitive string. This is a repetitive string." >test.txt
$ ./zlibcat <test.txt >test.txt.zz
$ ls -lh test.txt test.txt.zz
-rw-r--r-- 1 jakob staff 87B Dec 8 13:29 test.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 jakob staff 39B Dec 8 13:29 test.txt.zz
$ ./unzlibcat <test.txt.zz
This is a repetitive string. This is a repetitive string. This is a repetitive string.This is mostly useful for debugging when you work with zlib.