Re: [GD-General] Building pak/zip files

[Thatcher U. <tu...@tu...>]

On Dec 05, 2001 at 05:41 -0600, Tom Spilman wrote:
> > Zip file tools don't generally give you control over what
> > gets compressed and what doesn't(I think).
> 
>     Actually i don't think this is necessarily true

It doesn't actually matter -- zip tools generally will choose the best
method of compression for each file, so .jpg's or .mpg's will be
stored uncompressed.

> nor that you cannot
> specify the order of the contents of the zip file.  Check out
> http://www.winzip.com/wzcline.htm which adds command line support to WinZip.

Infozip's command-line zip apparently stores things in the order you
specify.  Also, it's open source under a X-style license, so you can
hack stuff in or incorporate the code in your project.  There's also
zlib from the same project, designed for embedding.  We use zlib at
Oddworld for unpacking resource files.

http://www.info-zip.org/
http://www.gzip.org/zlib/

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Thatcher Ulrich <tu...@tu...>
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