{$ASSERTIONS ON} uses zstream, sysutils, classes; var fEncoder : zstream.Tcompressionstream; fDecoder : zstream.Tdecompressionstream; fExpectedString : Shortstring; fCompressedStream : TStream; fBuffer : array[0..9] of Char; begin fCompressedStream := TMemoryStream.Create(); fExpectedString := 'test me test me I hope this is compressible test me compressible is test me'; fEncoder := zstream.Tcompressionstream.Create(clMax, fCompressedStream); fEncoder.Write(fExpectedString[1], Length(fExpectedString)); FreeAndNil(fEncoder); fCompressedStream.Position := 0; fDecoder := zstream.Tdecompressionstream.Create(fCompressedStream); fDecoder.Read(fBuffer, 10); assert(fDecoder.Position = 10); end.