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Package Specification

+ +

+ Info-ZIP Application Note 970311 + - a detailed description of the Info-ZIP format upon which + the java.util.zip classes are based. +
An implementation may optionally support the ZIP64(tm) format extensions + defined by the + + PKWARE ZIP File Format Specification. The ZIP64(tm) format extensions + are used to overcome the size limitations of the original ZIP format. +
APPENDIX D of + PKWARE ZIP File Format Specification - Language Encoding Flag (EFS) to + encode ZIP entry filename and comment fields using UTF-8. +
+ ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification version 3.3 + + (pdf) + (RFC 1950) +
+ DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3 + + (pdf) + (RFC 1951) +
+ GZIP file format specification version 4.3 + + (pdf) + (RFC 1952) +
CRC-32 checksum is described in RFC 1952 (above) +
Adler-32 checksum is described in RFC 1950 (above) +

+ + + + +@since 1.1 + + + +