accept blocks of
      arbitrary size.

<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-4" href="#section-4">4</a>. Compression algorithm details</span>

   While it is the intent of this document to define the "deflate"
   compressed data format without reference to any particular
   compression algorithm, the format is related to the compressed
   formats produced by LZ77 (Lempel-Ziv 1977, see reference [<a href="#ref-2" title="&quot;A Universal Algorithm for Sequential Data Compression&quot;">2</a>] b