1<section> <date> 20. July 2002 </date> 2<h2> ZZIP Programmers Interface </h2> The complete API description. 3 4<!--border--> 5 6<P> 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. 15</P> 16<P> 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. 22</P> 23 24<dl> 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> 29</dl> 30</section> 31