created 1.Jun.2000, last updated 25.Apr.2002
plus Installation and Contact Hints
You'll find gzip using the same compression that was written by Jean-loup Gaillyfor the Info-Zip Group whose Zipprogram is compatible with msdos PKZIP program from PK Ware. Then, in collaboration with Mark Adlerhe wrote the zlibcompression library which was later standardized in the zlib RFCs, namelyRFC 1950 zlib 3.3,RFC 1951 deflate 1.3 andRFC 1952 gzip 4.3. The free algorithm can be found in lots of places today including PPP packet compression and PNG picture compression.
The installation is from the source .tar.gz tarball does follow
the simple gnu style: type ''configure && make install''
in the unpacked directory. This will actually perform the usual
sequence of ''configure && make && make install''. The
use of ''make rpm'' will make rpms based on your system
setup, and using a decent mingw32 compiler (e.g. the crossgcc
from libsdl.org/Xmingw32)
will allow you to create windows dlls using a gnu development
environment. MSVC and Borland support (Make-)files should be
easy to be derived from the Makefile.am
The library was developed by
Guido Draheim based on the library
zip08x
by Tomi Ollila (many thanks
for his support of the zziplib project). He has provided
a good deal of testing rounds and very helpful comments.
It may be assumed that this library supersedes
zip08x, and in April 2002, he
has even given up copyright restrictions coming from zip08x
and changed the zip08x
readme to point to zziplib.
Anyone who wants to contribute in accessing zip-archives
with the zlib-library is hereby kindly invited to send us
comments and sourcecode.
The zziplib library must be linked with the free zlib [1] [2] [3] package originally developed by the Info-Zip Group and now maintained at the GZip Group. As of late, the pkware appnote.txt has been revised into a whitepaper document named "APPNOTE.TXT - .ZIP File Format Specification". Be also aware of other zzip like projects, e.g. zipios++ that mangles zip access into C++ iostream facilities.