| README (131377) | README (145474) |
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| 1ZLIB DATA COMPRESSION LIBRARY 2 | 1ZLIB DATA COMPRESSION LIBRARY 2 |
| 3zlib 1.2.1 is a general purpose data compression library. All the code is | 3zlib 1.2.2 is a general purpose data compression library. All the code is |
| 4thread safe. The data format used by the zlib library is described by RFCs 5(Request for Comments) 1950 to 1952 in the files 6http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1950.txt (zlib format), rfc1951.txt (deflate format) 7and rfc1952.txt (gzip format). These documents are also available in other 8formats from ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/zdoc-index.html 9 10All functions of the compression library are documented in the file zlib.h 11(volunteer to write man pages welcome, contact zlib@gzip.org). A usage example --- 17 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 29 30PLEASE read the zlib FAQ http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib_faq.html before asking 31for help. 32 33Mark Nelson <markn@ieee.org> wrote an article about zlib for the Jan. 1997 34issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal; a copy of the article is available in 35http://dogma.net/markn/articles/zlibtool/zlibtool.htm 36 | 4thread safe. The data format used by the zlib library is described by RFCs 5(Request for Comments) 1950 to 1952 in the files 6http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1950.txt (zlib format), rfc1951.txt (deflate format) 7and rfc1952.txt (gzip format). These documents are also available in other 8formats from ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/zdoc-index.html 9 10All functions of the compression library are documented in the file zlib.h 11(volunteer to write man pages welcome, contact zlib@gzip.org). A usage example --- 17 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 29 30PLEASE read the zlib FAQ http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib_faq.html before asking 31for help. 32 33Mark Nelson <markn@ieee.org> wrote an article about zlib for the Jan. 1997 34issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal; a copy of the article is available in 35http://dogma.net/markn/articles/zlibtool/zlibtool.htm 36 |
| 37The changes made in version 1.2.1 are documented in the file ChangeLog. | 37The changes made in version 1.2.2 are documented in the file ChangeLog. |
| 38 39Unsupported third party contributions are provided in directory "contrib". 40 41A Java implementation of zlib is available in the Java Development Kit 42http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/zip/package-summary.html 43See the zlib home page http://www.zlib.org for details. 44 45A Perl interface to zlib written by Paul Marquess <pmqs@cpan.org> is in the 46CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) sites 47http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Compress/ 48 | 38 39Unsupported third party contributions are provided in directory "contrib". 40 41A Java implementation of zlib is available in the Java Development Kit 42http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/zip/package-summary.html 43See the zlib home page http://www.zlib.org for details. 44 45A Perl interface to zlib written by Paul Marquess <pmqs@cpan.org> is in the 46CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) sites 47http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Compress/ 48 |
| 49A Python interface to zlib written by A.M. Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> is | 49A Python interface to zlib written by A.M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> is |
| 50available in Python 1.5 and later versions, see 51http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-zlib.html 52 53A zlib binding for TCL written by Andreas Kupries <a.kupries@westend.com> is 54availlable at http://www.oche.de/~akupries/soft/trf/trf_zip.html 55 56An experimental package to read and write files in .zip format, written on top 57of zlib by Gilles Vollant <info@winimage.com>, is available in the --- 30 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 88 89 The deflate format used by zlib was defined by Phil Katz. The deflate 90 and zlib specifications were written by L. Peter Deutsch. Thanks to all the 91 people who reported problems and suggested various improvements in zlib; 92 they are too numerous to cite here. 93 94Copyright notice: 95 | 50available in Python 1.5 and later versions, see 51http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-zlib.html 52 53A zlib binding for TCL written by Andreas Kupries <a.kupries@westend.com> is 54availlable at http://www.oche.de/~akupries/soft/trf/trf_zip.html 55 56An experimental package to read and write files in .zip format, written on top 57of zlib by Gilles Vollant <info@winimage.com>, is available in the --- 30 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 88 89 The deflate format used by zlib was defined by Phil Katz. The deflate 90 and zlib specifications were written by L. Peter Deutsch. Thanks to all the 91 people who reported problems and suggested various improvements in zlib; 92 they are too numerous to cite here. 93 94Copyright notice: 95 |
| 96 (C) 1995-2003 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler | 96 (C) 1995-2004 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler |
| 97 98 This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied 99 warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages 100 arising from the use of this software. 101 102 Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, 103 including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it 104 freely, subject to the following restrictions: --- 22 unchanged lines hidden --- | 97 98 This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied 99 warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages 100 arising from the use of this software. 101 102 Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, 103 including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it 104 freely, subject to the following restrictions: --- 22 unchanged lines hidden --- |