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Zlib - Data compression library

A free, lossless data compression lib for use on virtually any computer hardware and operating system. The zlib data format is itself portable across platforms. The compression method currently used in zlib never expands the data. Zlib's memory footprint is also independent of the input data by more than a few bytes and can be reduced (at some cost in compression).

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.gzip.org/zlib/
Source tarballhttp://www.libpng.org/pub/png/src/zlib-1.2.1.tar.gz
Version 1.2.1 (stable) released on 2003-12-02
Licensed under Zlib.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User reference manual available online at http://www.gzip.org/zlib/manual.html; programmer technical details available online from http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib_tech.html; programmer technical specs available online from http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib_docs.html
Support contacts

Announce List<info-zip-announce@lists.wku.edu>
Announce Newscomp.compression
Bug List<bug-zlib@gnu.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Sponsors
  • Walnut Creek CD-ROM

Related information

Interfaceslibrary
Source languagesC
Supported languagesPerl, Python, Visual Basic, Tcl, Java
Use requirementsld or ld.so
Weak prerequisitesmake
Related programsgzip

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-02-01
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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