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1MiniZip - Copyright (c) 1998-2010 - by Gilles Vollant - version 1.1 64 bits from Mathias Svensson
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3Introduction
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5MiniZip 1.1 is built from MiniZip 1.0 by Gilles Vollant ( http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/minizip.html )
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7When adding ZIP64 support into minizip it would result into risk of breaking compatibility with minizip 1.0.
8All possible work was done for compatibility.
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11Background
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13When adding ZIP64 support Mathias Svensson found that Even Rouault have added ZIP64
14support for unzip.c into minizip for a open source project called gdal ( http://www.gdal.org/ )
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16That was used as a starting point. And after that ZIP64 support was added to zip.c
17some refactoring and code cleanup was also done.
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19
20Changed from MiniZip 1.0 to MiniZip 1.1
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22* Added ZIP64 support for unzip ( by Even Rouault )
23* Added ZIP64 support for zip ( by Mathias Svensson )
24* Reverted some changed that Even Rouault did.
25* Bunch of patches received from Gulles Vollant that he received for MiniZip from various users.
26* Added unzip patch for BZIP Compression method (patch create by Daniel Borca)
27* Added BZIP Compress method for zip
28* Did some refactoring and code cleanup
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30
31Credits
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33 Gilles Vollant - Original MiniZip author
34 Even Rouault - ZIP64 unzip Support
35 Daniel Borca - BZip Compression method support in unzip
36 Mathias Svensson - ZIP64 zip support
37 Mathias Svensson - BZip Compression method support in zip
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39 Resources
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41 ZipLayout http://result42.com/projects/ZipFileLayout
42 Command line tool for Windows that shows the layout and information of the headers in a zip archive.
43 Used when debugging and validating the creation of zip files using MiniZip64
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45
46 ZIP App Note http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT
47 Zip File specification
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49
50Notes.
51 * To be able to use BZip compression method in zip64.c or unzip64.c the BZIP2 lib is needed and HAVE_BZIP2 need to be defined.
52
53License
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55 Condition of use and distribution are the same than zlib :
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57 This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
58 warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
59 arising from the use of this software.
60
61 Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
62 including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
63 freely, subject to the following restrictions:
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65 1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not
66 claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software
67 in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be
68 appreciated but is not required.
69 2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be
70 misrepresented as being the original software.
71 3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.
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