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From: Gautier write-only <gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ZLib in Ada ?
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 15:10:34 -0800 (PST)
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On Mar 7, 11:00=A0pm, Stephen Sangwine wrote:

> Yes, but Zlib does more than make ZIP files! Example, Zlib is used
> for compression in the PNG image format, so a PNG codec needs Zlib
> without the ZIP file format.

True, and ZLib is found at every corner: VPN connections, various
compressed formats like NetCDF, and what else ? Here is a list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib#Applications .

Reversely, the Zip format supports many compression formats beside
Deflate (the one of ZLib): LZW, bzip2, LZMA... In a Zip archive each
compressed file may have a different compression format, which allows
for nice optimizations (this is what the ReZip tool is doing).
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