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History and Links

plus Installation and Contact Hints + + +created 1.Jun.2000, last updated 25.Apr.2002 + + +

A Bit Of History

+ +You'll find gzip using the same compression +that was written by Jean-loup Gailly +for the Info-Zip Group +whose Zip +program is compatible with msdos PKZIP program from +PK Ware. Then, in collaboration +with Mark Adler +he wrote the zlib +compression library which was later standardized in the + +zlib RFCs, namely +RFC 1950 + +zlib 3.3, +RFC 1951 + +deflate 1.3 and +RFC 1952 + +gzip 4.3. The free algorithm can be found in lots of places +today including PPP packet compression and PNG picture compression. + +

Installation

+ +

+ 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 +

+ +

Contact

+ +

+ 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. +

+ +

Links

+ +

+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. +Be also aware of other zzip like projects, e.g. +zipios++ that +mangles zip access into C++ iostream facilities. +

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ZZIP Referentials

Where is it used. + + 15. July 2002 + +

GPL Rant

+ +

+ The GPL/LGPL do not have a clause like MPL and others to notify the + original author about certain usages of the library - that's a pity + since I do not get to know many of the areas where zziplib has come + to be used. I can only ask you to send me an e-mail, so I can put a + link from here to your project. Within thousands of downloads less + than a handful of people wrote to me - mostly for having found a bug + or having a feature request. Be nice, and write even if you have had + successfully implanted zziplib in your project... I love to hear that ;-) +

+ +

opensource games

+ +

+ Although the library has not been written focusing on game data, + it has it greatest success just there. The SDL-rwops example did + further it by great amounts, people just like it to have the + thousand of small bitmaps to be assembled into one big dat file, + and put the AI scripts just next to them. +

+ + + +

opensource apps/libs

+ +

+ Here the most important feature has been the smalls size of this + library and the possible to use its autoconf script and even for + those who don't, it is easy to make a custom configuration. The + source code is easy to understand and therefore to customize for + the needs of the app/lib that wants to use the functionality. +

+ + + +

commercial usage

+ +

+ For commercial usage, you can bind many small files into a zip + file for easier handling. Obfuscation and io-wrapping help + greatly to implant it in areas even far from posix-io grounds. +

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