Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 22:32:34 +0300
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> 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.

> 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.