[fpc-pascal] streaming file from zip into my app

[Darius Blaszijk]

Marc Santhoff wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 30.11.2007, 23:09 +0200 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
>   
>> On 30/11/2007, Marc Santhoff <M.Santhoff at t-online.de> wrote:
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>>> But I still have questions about the code. Do I understand correctly
>>> that Graeme contributed the de-/compression code but it still has to get
>>> integrated and used by the component?
>>>       
>> We used the zlib (de)compression units from the tiOPF project. We
>> simply removed the references to other tiOPF units - it was pretty
>> stand-alone already so was easy.  So yes, what's left is to integrate
>> that code into the TZipFile component and do some tests. The
>> (de)compression code has already been well unit tested in tiOPF, so we
>> know that part works perfectly.  As I stated earlier, I have also
>> found a Object Pascal implementation of 7zip which I would like to add
>> to both TZipFile and tiOPF - I still need to double check the
>> licensing though.
>>     
>
> I'm remembering slowly, zlib is for handling gzip format, pkzip format
> is still missing. And 7zip, does it have it's own format or is this used
> for the common ".zip"-files?
>
>   
Both gzip and zip support DEFLATE compression. The main difference 
between the two is that gzip internally ias a solid archive and zip not. 
This enables the use of the zip format as a "filesystem" without 
requiring to inflate the entire archive.
7zip uses LZMA compression which is also supported by the zipfile format.
> If I would want to complete the component, I'd try to use and maybe add
> something to the unit I've already found in packages/extra/unzip. At
> least the compression routines should do.
>   
Wherever you will start it will boil down to implement the zlib 
compression / decompression (inflate / deflate) algorithms.

Darius

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