Re: howto create a zip programmatically

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From: Norm Dresner (ndrez_at_att.net)
Date: 05/26/04 

Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 17:16:51 GMT

"Alex" <AlX@a> wrote in message
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>
> It's just that i'm not aware if gzip is compatible with WinZip, or if gzip
> files are the same as Zip files.
> zlib can create standard gzip files, so, if gzip files are compatible with
> WinZip then so will be the files created with zlib.
>
> What library did you used?

I used the ZLIB library. It's available from
        http://www.gzip.org/zlib/

But be aware that it's just a compression scheme. It doesn't create
archives that contain multiple files, you'll have to do that somehow
yourself. But a single ZLIB-created file was perfectly readable by WinZip
and vice versa.

    Norm

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