From 3b3b1f3da5d725677e832d3122cc1164103e68ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sam O'Connor <sam@octech.com.au>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 09:01:17 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md with examples per #12

---
 README.md | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ca23a0b..59b8a89 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -49,6 +49,21 @@ close(io)
 
 # pointlessly compress and decompress some data
 readbytes(rand(UInt8, 10000) |> ZlibDeflateInputStream |> ZlibInflateInputStream)
+
+# convenience functions
+writegz("data.txt.gz", "Hello!")
+string = readgzstring("data.txt.gz")
+
+writegz("data.bin.gz", rand(UInt8, 10000))
+bytes = readgz("data.bin.gz")
+
+s = gzopen("data.bin.gz")
+bytes = read(s)
+close(s)
+
+gzopen("data.bin.gz", "w") do s
+    write(s, rand(UInt8, 10000))
+end
 ```
 
 ## Other functions