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| 1 | zlib 0.8 is a beta version of a general purpose compression library. | 1 | zlib 0.9 is a beta version of a general purpose compression library. |
| 2 | This is the first version with no known bugs. (There may still be | ||
| 3 | problem on SGI, to be checked.) | ||
| 4 | 2 | ||
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 |
| @@ -11,18 +9,17 @@ zlib.h. A usage example of the library is given in the file example.c | |||
| 11 | which also tests that the library is working correctly. | 9 | which also tests that the library is working correctly. |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 11 | ||
| 14 | The changes made in version 0.8 are documented in the file ChangeLog. | 12 | The changes made in version 0.9 are documented in the file ChangeLog. |
| 15 | The main changes since 0.71 are: | 13 | The main changes since 0.8 are: |
| 16 | - added fast inflate (inffast.c) | 14 | - don't assume that zalloc clears the allocated memory |
| 17 | - deflate(Z_FINISH) now returns Z_STREAM_END when done. Warning: this | 15 | - let again gzread copy uncompressed data unchanged (was working in 0.71) |
| 18 | is incompatible with previous versions of zlib which returned Z_OK. | 16 | - deflate(Z_FULL_FLUSH), inflateReset and inflateSync are now fully implemented |
| 19 | - work around a nasty TurboC compiler bug | ||
| 20 | 17 | ||
| 21 | On MSDOS, this version works in both large and small model. However | 18 | On MSDOS, this version works in both large and small model. However |
| 22 | small model compression works only for small values of MEM_LEVEL and | 19 | small model compression works only for small values of MEM_LEVEL and |
| 23 | WBITS (see zutil.h). Small model decompression should work up to WBITS=15. | 20 | WBITS (see zutil.h). Small model decompression should work up to WBITS=15. |
| 24 | This version of zlib does not yet support small or medium model with | 21 | This version of zlib does not support small or medium model with far |
| 25 | far allocation of big objects. | 22 | allocation of big objects. |
| 26 | 23 | ||
| 27 | 24 | ||
| 28 | Copyright (C) 1995 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler | 25 | Copyright (C) 1995 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler |