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Re: How to compress files using zlib

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From Willem <willem@turtle.stack.nl>
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Subject Re: How to compress files using zlib
Date Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:34:32 +0000 (UTC)
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Angus wrote:
) I can use zlib to compress a text file.  But if I compression to a file I 
) name aaa.zip, I cannot then open it with the Windows 7 zip tool.  should I 
) be able to?  Do I need to specify a specific compression type to support 
) that?

Have you tried naming it aaa.gz ?
The ZIP format has some extra headers that you need to add.


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How to compress files using zlib "Angus" <nospam@gmail.com> - 2013-06-08 17:47 +0100
  Re: How to compress files using zlib Willem <willem@turtle.stack.nl> - 2013-06-10 17:34 +0000
    Re: How to compress files using zlib "Angus" <nospam@gmail.com> - 2013-07-07 12:22 +0100

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