Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 14:49:54 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), nate@sri.MT.net, Hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FBSD 2.1 Message-ID: <199601162149.OAA05862@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199601162139.OAA00859@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <7647.821781862@time.cdrom.com> <199601162139.OAA00859@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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> > That wouldn't save us anyway since we'd still need at least unzip in > > the tree. I figure if we're going to bring something like zip/unzip > > in, we might as well try to add some value to it. A library API to > > zip would be useful for a lot of things, I think. > > > > > Also, what kind of API would you like to see? You are the most familiar > > > with the package tools, so if you write up a quick 'this is what I'd > > > like to see API' then it would be easier for someone to know what is > > > expected. > > > > OK. I will do precisely that! > > Or you can check out the gnu.misc.discuss posting of where you can > download the library that already exists. That's the gzip compression library, not to be confused with we're discussing, a zip/unzip library. The former is a general purpose library for zip compresion, while the latter is specifically for 'ZIP-archive' files. Nate
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