%%name: zlib

%%short-description: Data compression lib
 
%%full-description: A free, lossless data compression lib for use
on virtually any computer hardware and operating system. The zlib data
format is itself portable across platforms.

The compression method currently used in zlib never expands the
data. Zlib's memory footprint is also independent of the input data by
more than a few bytes and can be reduced (at some cost in
compression).

%%category: development, administration

%%license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses

%%maintainer: Jean-Loup Gailly and Mark Adler <zlib@gzip.org>

%%interface: Library

%%updated: 15 Mar 2000

%%keywords: Compression, decompression, lossless

%%programs: 

%%GNU: no

%%web-page: ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/zlib.html

%%support:

%%doc: User reference manual available online at
ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/infozip/zlib/manual.html; programmer
technical details available online from
ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/infozip/zlib/zlib_tech.html; programmer
technical specs available online from
ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/infozip/zlib/zlib_docs.html

%%developers: Jean-Loup Gailly <zlib@gzip.org>, Mark Adler <zlib@gzip.org>

%%contributors: 

%%sponsors: Walnut Creek CD-ROM

%%source: ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/infozip/zlib/zlib.tar.gz

%%debian: http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/libs/zlib1g.html
	  http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/devel/zlib1g-dev.html

%%redhat: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/zlib.html
	  http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/zlib-devel.html

%%repository:

%%related: gzip

%%source-language: C

%%supported-languages: Perl, Python, Visual Basic, Tcl, Java

%%use-requirements: ld or ld.so

%%build-prerequisites:

%%weak-prerequisites: make

%%source-prerequisites:

%%version: 1.1.3 released 09 Jul 1998

%%announce-list: info-zip-announce@lists.wku.edu

%%announce-news: comp.compression

%%help-list: 

%%help-news: 

%%dev-list: 

%%dev-news:

%%bug-list: bug-zlib@gnu.org










 





