1<section> <date> 20. July 2002 </date>
2<h2> ZZIP Programmers Interface </h2>   The complete API description.
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7  The zzip library was originally developed by Tomi Ollila as a
8  set of zip decoder routines. Guido Draheim did pick it up and
9  wrapped them under a call synopsis matching their posix
10  api calls. Therefore <code>zzip_open()</code> has the same
11  synopsis as <code>open(2)</code> but it can open zipped files.
12  Later the distinction was made between magic wrappers and apis
13  for direct access to zip archives and the files contained
14  in the archive.
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17  These (three) functional apis have little helper functions
18  alongside including those to get the posix filehandle out of a
19  zzip handle and to get some attributes about the data handle
20  represented by a zzip handle. Plus checking for error codes
21  that may have been generated from internal checks.
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25<dt> <a href="zzip-basics.html">Basics</a> </dt>
26<dd> Magic Wrappers, Zip Archive Dir access, Zipped File access </dd>
27<dt> <a href="zzip-extras.html">Extras</a> </dt>
28<dd> ext/io init, StdC calls, Error defs, ReOpen, FileStat </dd>
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