<section><date>created 1.Jun.2000, last updated 25.Apr.2002 </date> <h2> History and Links </h2> plus Installation and Contact Hints <!--border--> <section> <h3> A Bit Of History </h3> <P> You'll find <a href="http://www.gzip.org">gzip</a> using the same compression that was written by Jean-loup <a href="http://gailly.net">Gailly</a> for the <a href="http://www.info-zip.org">Info-Zip</a> Group whose <a href="http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/Zip.html">Zip</a> program is compatible with msdos PKZIP program from <a href="http://www.pkware.com">PK Ware</a>. Then, in collaboration with <a href="http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~madler">Mark Adler</a> he wrote the <a href="http://www.gzip.org/zlib">zlib</a> compression library which was later standardized in the <a href="ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/zdoc-index.html"> zlib RFCs</a>, namely <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1950.txt">RFC 1950</a> <a href="ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/rfc-zlib.html.Z"> zlib 3.3</a>, <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1951.txt">RFC 1951</a> <a href="ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/rfc-deflate.html.Z"> deflate 1.3</a> and <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1952.txt">RFC 1952</a> <a href="ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/rfc-gzip.html"> gzip 4.3</a>. The free algorithm can be found in lots of places today including PPP packet compression and PNG picture compression. </P> </section><section> <h3> Installation </h3> <P> The installation is from the source .tar.gz tarball does follow the simple gnu style: type <tt>''configure && make install''</tt> in the unpacked directory. This will actually perform the usual sequence of <tt>''configure && make && make install''</tt>. The use of <tt>''make rpm''</tt> will make rpms based on your system setup, and using a decent mingw32 compiler (e.g. the crossgcc from <a href="http://libsdl.org/Xmingw32">libsdl.org/Xmingw32</a>) 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 <a href="Makefile.am">Makefile.am</a> </P> </section><section> <h3> Contact </h3> <P> The library was developed by <a href="mailto:guidod@gmx.de?subject=zziplib"> Guido Draheim </a> based on the library <a href="http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/08/02/933593367.html"> <tt>zip08x</tt> </a> by <a href="mailto:too@iki.fi"> Tomi Ollila </a> (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 <a href="http://www.iki.fi/too/sw/zip08x.readme"> <tt>zip08x</tt></a>, and in April 2002, he has even given up copyright restrictions coming from zip08x and changed the <a href="http://www.iki.fi/too/sw/zip08x.readme">zip08x</a> readme to point to <a href="http://zziplib.sf.net">zziplib</a>. Anyone who wants to contribute in accessing zip-archives with the zlib-library is hereby kindly invited to send us comments and sourcecode. </P> </section><section> <h3> Links </h3> <P> The <a href="zziplib.html">zziplib library</a> must be linked with the free <b><a href="http://www.gzip.org/zlib/">zlib</a></b> <a href="http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib">[1]</a> <a href="http://www.lifl.fr/PRIVATE/Manuals/gnulang/zlib">[2]</a> <a href="http://pobox.com/~newt">[3]</a> package originally developed by the <a href="http://www.info-zip.org">Info-Zip</a> Group and now maintained at the <a href="http://www.gzip.org">GZip</a> Group. As of late, the pkware appnote.txt has been revised into a whitepaper document named <a href="http://www.pkware.com/products/enterprise/white_papers/appnote.html"> "APPNOTE.TXT - .ZIP File Format Specification"</a>. Be also aware of other zzip like projects, e.g. <a href="http://zipios.sourceforge.net">zipios++</a> that mangles zip access into C++ iostream facilities. </P> </section></section>