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- Title: zlib -- a general-purpose data compression library
- Version: 1.0.4
- Entered-date: 24JUL96
- Description: zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally
- unencumbered -- that is, not covered by any patents -- lossless
- data-compression library for use on virtually any computer
- hardware and operating system. The zlib data format is itself
- portable across platforms. Unlike the LZW compression method
- used in Unix compress(1), the compression method currently used
- in zlib essentially never expands the data. (LZW can double or
- triple the file size in extreme cases.) zlib's memory footprint
- is also independent of the input data and can be reduced, if
- necessary, at some cost in compression.
- The compression algorithm used in zlib is essentially the same
- as that in gzip and Zip, namely, the `deflate' method.
- zlib is an integral part of libpng and has been tested
- extensively as part of many PNG-supporting applications.
- Upcoming versions of gzip and UnZip will also use zlib.
- Please note that zlib is *NOT* related to the Linux zlibc
- Compressing File System.
- Keywords: compression, library
- Author: zlib@quest.jpl.nasa.gov (Jean-loup Gailly)
- zlib@quest.jpl.nasa.gov (Mark Adler)
- http://quest.jpl.nasa.gov/zlib (zlib Homepage)
- Maintained-by: zlib@quest.jpl.nasa.gov (Jean-loup Gailly)
- zlib@quest.jpl.nasa.gov (Mark Adler)
- Primary-site: ftp://quest.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/zlib
- 86kB zlib-1.0.4.tar.gz
- Alternate-site: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/libs
- 86kB zlib-1.0.4.tar.gz
- Alternate-site: ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/sources/libs
- 86kB zlib-1.0.4.tar.gz
- Copying-policy: Copyrighted but freely distributable
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