OpenEuphoria

Re: paint gif/compression

• Posted by Daniel Berstein <daber at PAIR.COM> Jul 30, 1998
• 522 views

-----Original Message-----
De: Cuny, David <David.Cuny at DSS.CA.GOV>
Para: EUPHORIA at cwisserver1.mcs.muohio.edu
<EUPHORIA at cwisserver1.mcs.muohio.edu>
Fecha: Jueves 30 de Julio de 1998 05:50 PM
Asunto: Re: paint gif/compression


>I assume that, for the same reason you can't patent a gif decoder, there
>is a free version of unzip, a pkunzip clone. It can read files
>compressed by pkzip, but will not compress them. The source code is
>available at:
>
>        http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/UnZip.html


The same guys have a Zip tool. Zlib is a stripped down Zip.
FYI WinZip first versions used Infozip's code (I think before 6.0).


>Perhaps someone might want to try porting it to Euphoria? Or, since the
>source is in C, Robert might consider adding it as a feature in
>Euphoria..? 

You can find pre-compiled DLL's of Zlib, that can be called using EXW.EXE

Regards,
    Daniel   Berstein
    daber at pair.com