Any C code available for compressing & storing into informix ?

Hi netters, We store BLOBS which often are ascii text. Many of these ascii data has spaces etc. and the data is big. Such data is loaded/retrieved from our C programs and so we are thinking of storing such data in compressed form and do uncompression when retreiving. Are there any C routines for Informix available for this Or at least algorithms. Main concern would be that the routine conform to INformix data format(if any ??) and that is why we don't want to use UNIX compress/uncompress tools. ANy pointers ? Please reply directly if you could. Thanks very much Atiq Hashmi -- ---------------- Atiq Hashmi hashmi@netcom.com