ines.  Larger buffer sizes would be more efficient,
especially for <tt>inflate()</tt>.  If the memory is available, buffers sizes
on the order of 128K or 256K bytes should be used.
<pre><b>
#define CHUNK 16384
</b></pre><!-- -->
The <tt>def()</tt> routine compresses data from an input file to an output file.  The output data
will be in the <em>zlib</em> format, which is different from the <em>gzip</em> or <em>zip</em>
formats.  The <em>zlib</em> format has a very small header of only two bytes to identify i