Re: zip/unzip API?

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From: Eelke Klein
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:30

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Hans Galema wrote:
> Smitty wrote:
> 
>>     I want to zip a big string in momery,then send the string to a 
>> client,then unzip it.
> 
> 
> That is exactly what I do using Bzip2. See:
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/
> 
> You are not telling why you want to zip/unzip. If client and
> server are in the same 100MB network then zipping/unzipping will not
> be faster then sending uncompressed. When using a -slow- internet
> connection, then yes, that brings speed.
> 
> You only have to use a small piece of the downloadable code as
> lots of code is about using and managing files and archives.
zlib is another option

http://www.gzip.org/zlib/

Compaired with bzip2 it offers slightly less compression but with the 
benefit of a much higher speed.

Eelke

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