mple to control data latency on a link with
compressed data.  You can also ask that <tt>deflate()</tt> do that as well as erase any history up to
that point so that what follows can be decompressed independently, for example for random access
applications.  Both requests will degrade compression by an amount depending on how often such
requests are made.
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<tt>deflate()</tt> has a return value that can indicate errors, yet we do not check it here.  Why
not?  Well, it turns out that <tt>deflate()</tt> can 