Mail Archives: djgpp/2002/11/24/04:15:30
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message news:<8011-Sat23Nov2002223233+0200-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>...
> > From: dexter AT dcemail DOT com (Dexter Tad-y)
> > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> > Date: 23 Nov 2002 09:16:20 -0800
> > > >
> > > > Anybody knows if there exists a zip/unzip library for djgpp that's
> > > > easier to use than Info-ZIP?
> > >
> > > There's a port of zlib on the DJGPP site on SimTel.NET.
> >
> > Thanks but I am after some C wrapper functions that abstracts access
> > to a .zip file. i.e. a high level library for accessing zip files
> > transparently.
>
> Please in the future make sure to state your requirements, if there
> are any, when you ask questions. It takes time to look up the answers
> in the archives and my memory, and it frustrated me quite a lot to do
> that and give you the information I thought you were after, only to
> hear it being dismissed off-hand.
My apologies for not giving all the requirements in my question. But
ey, I didn't mean to frustrate you there. And I didn't totaly reject
your suggestion. In fact, it led me to investigate further zlib and
other alternatives. Thanks anyway.
>
> > AFAIK, zlib/bzip2/gzip libs (shares similar algorithms
> > with pkware's zip) are directly concerned with compression, not with
> > opening, extracting, deflating, imploding, etc the collection of files
> > inside zips transparently as a library.
>
> That's not entirely true. zlib does have a bunch of functions like
> gzopen, gzread and gzwrite, but they don't support *.zip archives,
> only *.gz style compressed files.
ok.
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