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0N/AProvides classes for reading and writing the standard ZIP and GZIP
0N/Afile formats. Also includes classes for compressing and decompressing
0N/Adata using the DEFLATE compression algorithm, which is used by the
0N/AZIP and GZIP file formats. Additionally, there are utility classes
0N/Afor computing the CRC-32 and Adler-32 checksums of arbitrary
0N/Ainput streams.
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0N/A<h2>Package Specification</h2>
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0N/A <li><a href="ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/doc/appnote-970311-iz.zip">
0N/A Info-ZIP Application Note 970311
0N/A </a> - a detailed description of the Info-ZIP format upon which
0N/A the <code>java.util.zip</code> classes are based.
<p>
<a name="zip64">
<li>An implementation may optionally support the ZIP64(tm) format extensions
defined by the
<a href="http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT">
PKWARE ZIP File Format Specification</a>. The ZIP64(tm) format extensions
are used to overcome the size limitations of the original ZIP format.
<p>
<a name="lang_encoding">
<li>APPENDIX D of <a href="http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT">
PKWARE ZIP File Format Specification</a> - Language Encoding Flag (EFS) to
encode ZIP entry filename and comment fields using UTF-8.
<p>
<li><a href="http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1950.txt">
ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification version 3.3</a>
&nbsp;
<a href="http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1950.ps">
(PostScript)</a>
(RFC 1950)
<p>
<li><a href="http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1951.txt">
DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3</a>
&nbsp;
<a href="http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1951.ps">
(PostScript)</a>
(RFC 1951)
<p>
<li><a href="http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1952.txt">
GZIP file format specification version 4.3</a>
&nbsp;
<a href="http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1952.ps">
(PostScript)</a>
(RFC 1952)
<p>
<li>CRC-32 checksum is described in RFC 1952 (above)
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<li>Adler-32 checksum is described in RFC 1950 (above)
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