Re: PK-Ware compression library

GWSteve@aol.com
Mon, 16 Sep 1996 13:35:50 -0400

In a message dated 96-09-16 13:10:26 EDT, edwdig@davinci.bergen.org (Edward
Di Geronimo Jr.) writes:

<< Is there a way to use the PK-Ware compression library? I want to write a
QWK reader, and QWK packets are zips, so I need a way to unzip them. Is
AOL's unzipping code internal to the app, or is it in the library? >>

AOL's unZIPing code is in their proprietary EXTRACT.GEO library, at least in
part.

PKWARE.GEO is Geoworks' engine for compressing/decompressing help files. The
technology was licensed for that specific purpose only, so it's not part of
the documented API.

Steve