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| 1 | zlib 0.71 is a beta version of a general purpose compression library. | 1 | zlib 0.79 is a beta version of a general purpose compression library. |
| 2 | 2 | ||
| 3 | The data format used by the zlib library is described in the | 3 | The data format used by the zlib library is described in the |
| 4 | file zlib-3.1.doc, deflate-1.1.doc and gzip-4.1.doc, available | 4 | file zlib-3.1.doc, deflate-1.1.doc and gzip-4.1.doc, available |
| @@ -9,16 +9,10 @@ zlib.h. A usage example of the library is given in the file example.c | |||
| 9 | which also tests that the library is working correctly. | 9 | which also tests that the library is working correctly. |
| 10 | To compile all files and run the test program, just type: make test | 10 | To compile all files and run the test program, just type: make test |
| 11 | 11 | ||
| 12 | The changes made in version 0.71 are documented in the file ChangeLog. | 12 | The changes made in version 0.79 are documented in the file ChangeLog. |
| 13 | The main changes since 0.5 are: | 13 | The main changes since 0.71 are: |
| 14 | - added full inflate support | 14 | - add fast inflate (inffast.c) |
| 15 | - added minigzip.c | 15 | - In gzio destroy(), don't reference a freed structure |
| 16 | - added gzdopen to reopen a file descriptor as gzFile | ||
| 17 | - added transparent reading of non-gziped files in gzread. | ||
| 18 | - fix some MSDOS problems. example and minigzip now work on MSDOS. | ||
| 19 | - Simplified the crc32() interface. The pre- and post-conditioning | ||
| 20 | (one's complement) is now done inside crc32(). WARNING: this is | ||
| 21 | incompatible with previous versions; see zlib.h for the new usage. | ||
| 22 | 16 | ||
| 23 | On MSDOS, this version works in large and small model with MSC; in | 17 | On MSDOS, this version works in large and small model with MSC; in |
| 24 | small model only with TurboC (bug being investigated). For both | 18 | small model only with TurboC (bug being investigated). For both |
