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<span class="grey"><a href="./rfc1951">RFC 1951</a>      DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification      May 1996</span>


         preset dictionary might discard part of the output stream; a
         distance can refer to that part of the output stream anyway)
         Note also that the referenced string may overlap the current
         position; for example, if the last 2 bytes decoded have value