source/libs/zziplib/zziplib-0.13.62/docs/history.htm

   1 <section><date>created 1.Jun.2000, last updated 25.Apr.2002 </date>
   2 <h2> History and Links </h2>           plus Installation and Contact Hints
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   6 <section>
   7 <h3> A Bit Of History </h3>
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   9 <P>
  10 You'll find <a href="http://www.gzip.org">gzip</a> using the same compression
  11 that was written by Jean-loup <a href="http://gailly.net">Gailly</a>
  12 for the <a href="http://www.info-zip.org">Info-Zip</a> Group
  13 whose <a href="http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/Zip.html">Zip</a>
  14 program is compatible with msdos PKZIP program from
  15 <a href="http://www.pkware.com">PK&nbsp;Ware</a>. Then, in collaboration
  16 with <a href="http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~madler">Mark Adler</a>
  17 he wrote the <a href="http://www.gzip.org/zlib">zlib</a>
  18 compression library which was later standardized in the
  19 <a href="ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/zdoc-index.html">
  20 zlib RFCs</a>, namely
  21 <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1950.txt">RFC 1950</a>
  22 <a href="ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/rfc-zlib.html.Z">
  23 zlib&nbsp;3.3</a>,
  24 <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1951.txt">RFC 1951</a>
  25 <a href="ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/rfc-deflate.html.Z">
  26 deflate&nbsp;1.3</a> and
  27 <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1952.txt">RFC 1952</a>
  28 <a href="ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/rfc-gzip.html">
  29 gzip&nbsp;4.3</a>. The free algorithm can be found in lots of places
  30 today including PPP packet compression and PNG picture compression.
  31 </P>
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  33 </section><section>
  34 <h3> Installation </h3>
  35
  36 <P>
  37  The installation is from the source .tar.gz tarball does follow
  38  the simple gnu style: type <tt>''configure  && make install''</tt>
  39  in the unpacked directory. This will actually perform the usual
  40  sequence of <tt>''configure && make && make install''</tt>. The
  41  use of <tt>''make rpm''</tt> will make rpms based on your system
  42  setup, and using a decent mingw32 compiler (e.g. the crossgcc
  43  from <a href="http://libsdl.org/Xmingw32">libsdl.org/Xmingw32</a>)
  44  will allow you to create windows dlls using a gnu development
  45  environment. MSVC and Borland support (Make-)files should be
  46  easy to be derived from the <a href="Makefile.am">Makefile.am</a>
  47 </P>
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  49 </section><section>
  50 <h3> Contact </h3>
  51
  52 <P>
  53  The library was developed by
  54  <a href="mailto:guidod@gmx.de?subject=zziplib">
  55  Guido Draheim </a> based on the library
  56  <a href="http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/08/02/933593367.html">
  57  <tt>zip08x</tt> </a>
  58  by <a href="mailto:too@iki.fi"> Tomi Ollila </a> (many thanks
  59  for his support of the zziplib project). He has provided
  60  a good deal of testing rounds and very helpful comments.
  61  It may be assumed that this library supersedes
  62  <a href="http://www.iki.fi/too/sw/zip08x.readme">
  63  <tt>zip08x</tt></a>, and in April 2002, he
  64  has even given up copyright restrictions coming from zip08x
  65  and changed the <a href="http://www.iki.fi/too/sw/zip08x.readme">zip08x</a>
  66  readme to point to <a href="http://zziplib.sf.net">zziplib</a>.
  67  Anyone who wants to contribute in accessing zip-archives
  68  with the zlib-library is hereby kindly invited to send us
  69  comments and sourcecode.
  70 </P>
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  72 </section><section>
  73 <h3> Links </h3>
  74
  75 <P>
  76 The <a href="zziplib.html">zziplib library</a> must be
  77 linked with the free <b><a href="http://www.gzip.org/zlib/">zlib</a></b>
  78 <a href="http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib">[1]</a>
  79 <a href="http://www.lifl.fr/PRIVATE/Manuals/gnulang/zlib">[2]</a>
  80 <a href="http://pobox.com/~newt">[3]</a> package originally developed
  81 by the <a href="http://www.info-zip.org">Info-Zip</a> Group
  82 and now maintained at the <a href="http://www.gzip.org">GZip</a> Group.
  83 As of late, the pkware appnote.txt has been revised into a whitepaper
  84 document named
  85 <a href="http://www.pkware.com/products/enterprise/white_papers/appnote.html">
  86     "APPNOTE.TXT - .ZIP File Format Specification"</a>.
  87 Be also aware of other zzip like projects, e.g.
  88 <a href="http://zipios.sourceforge.net">zipios++</a> that
  89 mangles zip access into C++ iostream facilities.
  90 </P>
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  92 </section></section>