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| author | Mark Adler <madler@alumni.caltech.edu> | 2011-09-09 23:08:07 -0700 |
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| committer | Mark Adler <madler@alumni.caltech.edu> | 2011-09-09 23:08:07 -0700 |
| commit | bdde4e09d21edff02ea5093b7f6eccbf166b272f (patch) | |
| tree | a64632a98a6bea6e5df864d6e5b6f2e51ea69c1c /README | |
| parent | 1c71d8b13b54f91ddec361d3053ecce26e6ff761 (diff) | |
| download | zlib-bdde4e09d21edff02ea5093b7f6eccbf166b272f.tar.gz | |
zlib 0.92v0.92
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -zlib 0.91 is a beta version of a general purpose compression library. +zlib 0.92 is a beta version of a general purpose compression library. The data format used by the zlib library is described in the files zlib-3.1.doc, deflate-1.1.doc and gzip-4.1.doc, available @@ -14,12 +14,15 @@ To install the zlib library (libgz.a) in /usr/local/lib, type: make install To install in a different directory, use for example: make install prefix=$HOME This will install in $HOME/lib instead of /usr/local/lib. -The changes made in version 0.91 are documented in the file ChangeLog. +The changes made in version 0.92 are documented in the file ChangeLog. The main changes since 0.9 are: +- don't assume that char is signed (problem on SGI) - Default MEM_LEVEL is 8 (not 9 for Unix) as documented in zlib.h - Document the memory requirements in zconf.h - added "make install" -- added support for DJGPP +- added support for DJGPP and Pyramid +- fix an inflate bug for stored blocks. +- various speedups On MSDOS, this version works in both large and small model. However small model compression works only for small values of MAX_MEM_LEVEL |