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<span class="grey"><a href="./rfc1950">RFC 1950</a>       ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification        May 1996</span>


      represents one byte; a box like this:

         +==============+
         |              |
         +==============+

      represents a variable number of bytes.

      Bytes stored within a computer do not have a "bit order", since
      they are always treated as a unit.  However,