zlib 1.2.0.7
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ZLIB DATA COMPRESSION LIBRARY
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zlib 1.2.0.6 is a general purpose data compression library. All the code is
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zlib 1.2.0.7 is a general purpose data compression library. All the code is
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thread safe. The data format used by the zlib library is described by RFCs
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(Request for Comments) 1950 to 1952 in the files
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http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1950.txt (zlib format), rfc1951.txt (deflate format)
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formats from ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/zdoc-index.html
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All functions of the compression library are documented in the file zlib.h
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(volunteer to write man pages welcome, contact jloup@gzip.org). A usage example
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(volunteer to write man pages welcome, contact zlib@gzip.org). A usage example
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of the library is given in the file example.c which also tests that the library
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is working correctly. Another example is given in the file minigzip.c. The
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compression library itself is composed of all source files except example.c and
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issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal; a copy of the article is available in
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http://dogma.net/markn/articles/zlibtool/zlibtool.htm
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The changes made in version 1.2.0.6 are documented in the file ChangeLog.
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The changes made in version 1.2.0.7 are documented in the file ChangeLog.
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Unsupported third party contributions are provided in directory "contrib".
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A Java implementation of zlib is available in the Java Development Kit
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http://www.javasoft.com/products/JDK/1.1/docs/api/Package-java.util.zip.html
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http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/zip/package-summary.html
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See the zlib home page http://www.zlib.org for details.
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A Perl interface to zlib written by Paul Marquess <pmqs@cpan.org> is in the
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http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-zlib.html
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A zlib binding for TCL written by Andreas Kupries <a.kupries@westend.com> is
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availlable at http://www.westend.com/~kupries/doc/trf/man/man.html
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availlable at http://www.oche.de/~akupries/soft/trf/trf_zip.html
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An experimental package to read and write files in .zip format, written on top
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of zlib by Gilles Vollant <info@winimage.com>, is available at
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http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/unzip.html and also in the contrib/minizip
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directory of zlib.
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of zlib by Gilles Vollant <info@winimage.com>, is available in the
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contrib/minizip directory of zlib.
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Notes for some targets:
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- To build a Windows DLL version, include in a DLL project zlib.def, zlib.rc
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and all .c files except example.c and minigzip.c; compile with -DZLIB_DLL The
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zlib DLL support was initially done by Alessandro Iacopetti and is now
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maintained by Gilles Vollant <info@winimage.com>. Check the zlib DLL home
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page at http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll
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From Visual Basic, you can call the DLL functions which do not take a
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structure as argument: compress, uncompress and all gz* functions. See
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contrib/visual-basic.txt for more information, or get
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http://www.tcfb.com/dowseware/cmp-z-it.zip
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- For Windows DLL versions, please see win32/DLL_FAQ.txt
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- For 64-bit Irix, deflate.c must be compiled without any optimization. With
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-O, one libpng test fails. The test works in 32 bit mode (with the -n32
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- For Turbo C the small model is supported only with reduced performance to
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avoid any far allocation; it was tested with -DMAX_WBITS=11 -DMAX_MEM_LEVEL=3
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- For PalmOs, see http://www.cs.uit.no/~perm/PASTA/pilot/software.html Per
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Harald Myrvang <perm@stud.cs.uit.no>
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- For PalmOs, see http://palmzlib.sourceforge.net/
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- When building a shared, i.e. dynamic library on Mac OS X, the library must be
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installed before testing (do "make install" before "make test"), since the
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library location is specified in the library.
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Acknowledgments:
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