Input (dose3-extra.Dose

val gzip_open_file : string -> IO.input

load a file in gzip format

val bzip_open_file : string -> IO.input

load a file in bzip format

val std_open_file : string -> IO.input

load a non compressed file

exception File_empty

val open_file : string -> IO.input

load a file either in gzip, bzip or not compressed format

returns
ExtLib.IO.input channel. Raise File_empty if the file is empty or fail if the file does not exist

val open_ch : Stdlib.in_channel -> IO.input

val close_ch : IO.input -> unit

val parse_uri : 
  string ->
  Url.filetypes
  * (string option * string option * string option * string option * string)
  * string option

parse a uri. i.e. : deb://path/to/file rpm://path/to/file cudf://path/to/file

val guess_format : string list list -> Url.filetypes

guess the input format from a list of list of uris and check * if the list is omogenueous w.r.t the guessed format. Fails otherwise