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.TH ZLIB 3 "xx Aug 2023"
.SH NAME
zlib \- compression/decompression library
.SH SYNOPSIS
[see
.I zlib.h
for full description]
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.I zlib
library is a general purpose data compression library.
The code is thread safe, assuming that the standard library functions
used are thread safe, such as memory allocation routines.
It provides in-memory compression and decompression functions,
including integrity checks of the uncompressed data.
This version of the library supports only one compression method (deflation)
but other algorithms may be added later
with the same stream interface.
.LP
Compression can be done in a single step if the buffers are large enough
or can be done by repeated calls of the compression function.
In the latter case,
the application must provide more input and/or consume the output
(providing more output space) before each call.
.LP
The library also supports reading and writing files in
.IR gzip (1)
(.gz) format
with an interface similar to that of stdio.
.LP
The library does not install any signal handler.
The decoder checks the consistency of the compressed data,
so the library should never crash even in the case of corrupted input.
.LP
All functions of the compression library are documented in the file
.IR zlib.h .
The distribution source includes examples of use of the library
in the files
.I test/example.c
and
.IR test/minigzip.c,
as well as other examples in the
.IR examples/
directory.
.LP
Changes to this version are documented in the file
.I ChangeLog
that accompanies the source.
.LP
.I zlib
is built in to many languages and operating systems, including but not limited to
Java, Python, .NET, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Swift, and Go.
.LP
An experimental package to read and write files in the .zip format,
written on top of
.I zlib
by Gilles Vollant (info@winimage.com),
is available at:
.IP
http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/minizip.html
and also in the
.I contrib/minizip
directory of the main
.I zlib
source distribution.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
The
.I zlib
web site can be found at:
.IP
http://zlib.net/
.LP
The data format used by the
.I zlib
library is described by RFC
(Request for Comments) 1950 to 1952 in the files:
.IP
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1950 (for the zlib header and trailer format)
.br
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1951 (for the deflate compressed data format)