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- .TH ZLIB 3 "11 March 2002"
- .SH NAME
- zlib - compression/decompression library
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- [see
- .I zlib.h
- for full description]
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- The
- .I zlib
- library is a general purpose data compression library.
- The code is thread safe.
- It provides in-memory compression and decompression functions,
- including integrity checks of the uncompressed data.
- This version of the library supports only one compression method (deflation)
- but other algorithms will be added later and will have the same stream interface.
- .LP
- Compression can be done in a single step if the buffers are large enough
- (for example if an input file is mmap'ed),
- or can be done by repeated calls of the compression function.
- In the latter case,
- the application must provide more input and/or consume the output
- (providing more output space) before each call.
- .LP
- The library also supports reading and writing files in
- .I gzip
- (.gz) format
- with an interface similar to that of stdio.
- .LP
- The library does not install any signal handler. The decoder checks
- the consistency of the compressed data, so the library should never
- crash even in case of corrupted input.
- .LP
- All functions of the compression library are documented in the file
- .IR zlib.h.
- The distribution source includes examples of use of the library
- the files
- .I example.c
- and
- .IR minigzip.c .
- .LP
- A Java implementation of
- .IR zlib
- is available in the Java Development Kit 1.1
- .IP
- http://www.javasoft.com/products/JDK/1.1/docs/api/Package-java.util.zip.html
- .LP
- A Perl interface to
- .IR zlib ,
- written by Paul Marquess (pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk)
- is available at CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) sites,
- such as:
- .IP
- ftp://ftp.cis.ufl.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/Compress/Compress-Zlib*
- .LP
- A Python interface to
- .IR zlib
- written by A.M. Kuchling <amk@magnet.com>
- is available from the Python Software Association sites, such as:
- .IP
- ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/contrib/Encoding/zlib*.tar.gz
- .SH "SEE ALSO"
- Questions about zlib should be sent to:
- .IP
- zlib@quest.jpl.nasa.gov
- or, if this fails, to the author addresses given below.
- The zlib home page is:
- .IP
- http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/
- .LP
- The data format used by the zlib library is described by RFC
- (Request for Comments) 1950 to 1952 in the files:
- .IP
- ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1950.txt (zlib format)
- .br
- rfc1951.txt (deflate format)
- .br
- rfc1952.txt (gzip format)
- .LP
- These documents are also available in other formats from:
- .IP
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/zdoc-index.html
- .SH AUTHORS
- Version 1.1.4
- Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@gzip.org)
- and Mark Adler (madler@alumni.caltech.edu).
- .LP
- This software is provided "as-is,"
- without any express or implied warranty.
- In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
- arising from the use of this software.
- See the distribution directory with respect to requirements
- governing redistribution.
- The deflate format used by
- .I zlib
- was defined by Phil Katz.
- The deflate and
- .I zlib
- specifications were written by L. Peter Deutsch.
- Thanks to all the people who reported problems and suggested various
- improvements in
- .IR zlib ;
- who are too numerous to cite here.
- .LP
- UNIX manual page by R. P. C. Rodgers,
- U.S. National Library of Medicine (rodgers@nlm.nih.gov).
- ." end of man page