Chris@43: Possible upgrades to gzfilebuf:
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Chris@43: - The ability to do putback (e.g. putbackfail)
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Chris@43: - The ability to seek (zlib supports this, but could be slow/tricky)
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Chris@43: - Simultaneous read/write access (does it make sense?)
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Chris@43: - Support for ios_base::ate open mode
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Chris@43: - Locale support?
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Chris@43: - Check public interface to see which calls give problems
Chris@43:   (due to dependence on library internals)
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Chris@43: - Override operator<<(ostream&, gzfilebuf*) to allow direct copying
Chris@43:   of stream buffer to stream ( i.e. os << is.rdbuf(); )