On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich <drdiettri...@aol.com> wrote: > > Don't confuse zlib with zip. AFAIK zlib is the gz library, which > compresses only an single file, and typically is used to compress tar > archives into *.tar.gz or *.tgz.
That's correct. An alternative that also gives MUCH better compression, is 7zip. There is a native implementation of 7zip for Delphi (and I believe it works with Free Pascal as well). Good news is that NO external libraries are required and compression is the best! Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
