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How is a .zip compressed archive structured?

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compression

zip

archive

I'm looking into how popular compression algorithms work so I could possibly implement my own zip archiver. Are there any resources about how exactly zip works? How is a .zip compressed archive structured?

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liamzebedee Avatar asked Jan 23 '11 21:01

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1 Answers

  1. ZIP format documentation
  2. DEFLATE algorithm
  3. ZLib compressed data format
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Eugene Mayevski 'Callback Avatar answered Oct 17 '22 09:10

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