[GWhere-discussion] libs reading .zip files

[W. Lichtenberger]

Hi,

Zero wrote:
> I think that zlib only works with GZIP archives not ZIP archives. :-(

Well... in its source from http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ (in 
contrib/minizip/unzip.h) it says

"This unzip package allow extract file from .ZIP file, compatible with PKZip 
2.04g, WinZip, InfoZip tools and compatible.
   Encryption and multi volume ZipFile (span) are not supported.
   Old compressions used by old PKZip 1.x are not supported."

IMHO could do the job, for a start.
Although i could have some of those pkzip 1.x files somewhere 8^(

Via Freshmeat.net i found a few more relevant library projects:

* http://zziplib.sourceforge.net/
        "offers the ability to easily extract data from files archived in a
        single zip file."
        (but seems to just do the same code as zlib)

* http://www.guru-group.fi/~too/sw/zip08x.readme
        "a library that can read contents of files archived in a zip file
with a very simple library api."
        now superceded by zziplib

* http://zipios.sourceforge.net/
        "Zipios++ is a java.util.zip-like C++ library for reading and writing Zip 
files."
        but builds upon zlib

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regards,
-- Wolf Lichtenberger