We are some students at the university, who need some material about data-compression. The problem is, that we can´t find any GOOD and FREE (we are poor) resources, so we hoped some of you guys (and girls) would help. We have already grapped the articles at gamedev, but it´s not enough ): ~BB~

You can look at ZLib, it''s a cross platform compress and extraction library that is open source. It is based off of the Lempel Ziv compression algorithm, like most compression is . Here''s another thing you might want to look at: http://chesworth.com/pv/technical/file_compression.htm

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Have a look right here



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Thanks the sites where just what I needed, but I´ll still need some info about the .zip (and if possible .arj) format.

So if anybody knows where to go, please help.
(I have looked at pkzip.com and zip.com, but nothing)

~BB~

If you take a look at the source of the Titan Engine, they have a file that decompresses zip files. I couldn''t read their code too well when I tried though.

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