source/libs/zziplib/zziplib-0.13.62/docs/zzip-api.htm

   1 <section> <date> 20. July 2002 </date>
   2 <h2> ZZIP Programmers Interface </h2>   The complete API description.
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   6 <P>
   7   The zzip library was orginally developped by Tomi Ollila as a
   8   set of zip decoder routines. Guido Draheim did pick it up and
   9   wrapped them under a call synopsis matching their posix
  10   api calls. Therefore <code>zzip_open()</code> has the same
  11   synopsis as <code>open(2)</code> but it can open zipped files.
  12   Later the distinction was made between magic wrappers and apis
  13   for direct access to zip archives and the files contained
  14   in the archive.
  15 </P>
  16 <P>
  17   These (three) functional apis have little helper functions
  18   alongside including those to get the posix filehandle out of a
  19   zzip handle and to get some attributes about the data handle
  20   represented by a zzip handle. Plus checking for error codes
  21   that may have been generated from internal checks.
  22 </P>
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  24 <dl>
  25 <dt> <a href="zzip-basics.html">Basics</a> </dt>
  26 <dd> Magic Wrappers, Zip Archive Dir access, Zipped File access </dd>
  27 <dt> <a href="zzip-extras.html">Extras</a> </dt>
  28 <dd> ext/io init, StdC calls, Error defs, ReOpen, FileStat </dd>
  29 </dl>
  30 </section>