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author | Mark Adler <madler@alumni.caltech.edu> | 2011-09-09 23:20:15 -0700 |
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committer | Mark Adler <madler@alumni.caltech.edu> | 2011-09-09 23:20:15 -0700 |
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1 | zlib 1.1.1 is a general purpose data compression library. All the code | 1 | zlib 1.1.2 is a general purpose data compression library. All the code |
2 | is thread safe. The data format used by the zlib library | 2 | is thread safe. The data format used by the zlib library |
3 | is described by RFCs (Request for Comments) 1950 to 1952 in the files | 3 | is described by RFCs (Request for Comments) 1950 to 1952 in the files |
4 | ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1950.txt (zlib format), rfc1951.txt (deflate | 4 | ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1950.txt (zlib format), rfc1951.txt (deflate |
@@ -21,18 +21,27 @@ Questions about zlib should be sent to <zlib@quest.jpl.nasa.gov> or, | |||
21 | if this fails, to the addresses given below in the Copyright section. | 21 | if this fails, to the addresses given below in the Copyright section. |
22 | The zlib home page is http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/ | 22 | The zlib home page is http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/ |
23 | The official zlib ftp site is ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/ | 23 | The official zlib ftp site is ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/ |
24 | Mark Nelson wrote an article about zlib for the Jan. 1997 issue of | 24 | Mark Nelson <markn@tiny.com> wrote an article about zlib for the Jan. 1997 |
25 | Dr. Dobb's Journal; a copy of the article is available in | 25 | issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal; a copy of the article is available in |
26 | http://web2.airmail.net/markn/articles/zlibtool/zlibtool.htm | 26 | http://web2.airmail.net/markn/articles/zlibtool/zlibtool.htm |
27 | 27 | ||
28 | The changes made in version 1.1.1 are documented in the file ChangeLog. | 28 | The changes made in version 1.1.2 are documented in the file ChangeLog. |
29 | The main changes since 1.1.0 are: | 29 | The main changes since 1.1.1 are: |
30 | 30 | ||
31 | - fix macros _tr_tally_* in deflate.h for debug mode (Glenn Randers-Pehrson) | 31 | - added contrib/minzip, mini zip and unzip based on zlib (Gilles Vollant) |
32 | - remove block truncation heuristic which had very marginal effect for zlib | 32 | See http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/unzip.html |
33 | (smaller lit_bufsize than in gzip 1.2.4) and degraded a little the | 33 | - preinitialize the inflate tables for fixed codes, to make the code |
34 | compression ratio on some files. This also allows inlining _tr_tally for | 34 | completely thread safe (Mark) |
35 | matches in deflate_slow. | 35 | - some simplifications and slight speed-up to the inflate code (Mark) |
36 | - fix gzeof on non-compressed files (Allan Schrum) | ||
37 | - add -std1 option in configure for OSF1 to fix gzprintf (Martin Mokrejs) | ||
38 | - use default value of 4K for Z_BUFSIZE for 16-bit MSDOS (Tim Wegner + Glenn) | ||
39 | - added os2/Makefile.def and os2/zlib.def (Andrew Zabolotny) | ||
40 | - add shared lib support for UNIX_SV4.2MP (MATSUURA Takanori) | ||
41 | - do not wrap extern "C" around system includes (Tom Lane) | ||
42 | - added amiga/Makefile.pup for Amiga powerUP SAS/C PPC (Andreas Kleinert) | ||
43 | - allow "make install prefix=..." even after configure (Glenn Randers-Pehrson) | ||
44 | - allow "configure --prefix $HOME" (Tim Mooney) | ||
36 | 45 | ||
37 | 46 | ||
38 | Unsupported third party contributions are provided in directory "contrib". | 47 | Unsupported third party contributions are provided in directory "contrib". |
@@ -49,9 +58,13 @@ A Python interface to zlib written by A.M. Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> | |||
49 | is available from the Python Software Association sites, such as: | 58 | is available from the Python Software Association sites, such as: |
50 | ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/contrib/Encoding/zlib*.tar.gz | 59 | ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/contrib/Encoding/zlib*.tar.gz |
51 | 60 | ||
52 | An experimental package to read files in .zip format, written on top of | 61 | A zlib binding for TCL written by Andreas Kupries <a.kupries@westend.com> |
53 | zlib by Gilles Vollant <info@winimage.com>, is available at | 62 | is availlable at http://www.westend.com/~kupries/doc/trf/man/man.html |
54 | http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/unzip.html | 63 | |
64 | An experimental package to read and write files in .zip format, | ||
65 | written on top of zlib by Gilles Vollant <info@winimage.com>, is | ||
66 | available at http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/unzip.html | ||
67 | and also in the contrib/minizip directory of zlib. | ||
55 | 68 | ||
56 | 69 | ||
57 | Notes for some targets: | 70 | Notes for some targets: |
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74 | - zlib doesn't work with gcc 2.6.3 on a DEC 3000/300LX under OSF/1 2.1 | 87 | - zlib doesn't work with gcc 2.6.3 on a DEC 3000/300LX under OSF/1 2.1 |
75 | it works when compiled with cc. | 88 | it works when compiled with cc. |
76 | 89 | ||
90 | - on Digital Unix 4.0D (formely OSF/1) on AlphaServer, the cc option -std1 | ||
91 | is necessary to get gzprintf working correctly. This is done by configure. | ||
92 | |||
77 | - zlib doesn't work on HP-UX 9.05 with some versions of /bin/cc. It works | 93 | - zlib doesn't work on HP-UX 9.05 with some versions of /bin/cc. It works |
78 | with other compilers. Use "make test" to check your compiler. | 94 | with other compilers. Use "make test" to check your compiler. |
79 | 95 | ||
@@ -90,7 +106,7 @@ Notes for some targets: | |||
90 | Acknowledgments: | 106 | Acknowledgments: |
91 | 107 | ||
92 | The deflate format used by zlib was defined by Phil Katz. The deflate | 108 | The deflate format used by zlib was defined by Phil Katz. The deflate |
93 | and zlib specifications were written by Peter Deutsch. Thanks to all the | 109 | and zlib specifications were written by L. Peter Deutsch. Thanks to all the |
94 | people who reported problems and suggested various improvements in zlib; | 110 | people who reported problems and suggested various improvements in zlib; |
95 | they are too numerous to cite here. | 111 | they are too numerous to cite here. |
96 | 112 | ||