Registered: Sep 2000
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Could anyone tell me what this file is? A while back, I installed ZarfCatalog and removed it. Could it that this file is part of ZarfCatalog? Thanks for your input.

Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Misplaced Canuck in Charleston SC
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I had a Zlib.prc installed on my platinum by some utility that claimed to be able to zip unused DBs on the PDA to reduce storage size. I don't remember what it was called and ended up turfing it because I learned that my DOC files were already compressed and didn't compress much further with the utility. I also don't have any apps on my Platinum that i don't use on a regular basis, so adding an extra compression/decompression step wasn't very helpful for me.
Deleting the app didn't get rid of it's associated libraries, so I had to go in and do it manually.

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zlib is used by pz.prc, an archiver. I use pz instead of filez and zarf as an advanced file manager. Check out:

<http://www.sra.co.jp/people/hoshi/palmos/pz.html>

for more details

Dale

Registered: May 2000
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Can we all double check this? I use PZ and ZarfCatalog and have never seen a zlib.prc file.

I even re-downloaded the pz-0.7.1.zip file and examined the archive to see if I missed a file during my initial installation many moons ago-- I only see pz.prc and unpz.prc (and Z'Catalog from the author's web site gets you a single PRC file...)

Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Pullman, WA
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I can't remember what program installed it on my Visor, (I think JackBack did, not sure if something wlse uses it), but I opened it in RsrcEdit, and among one of the first lines of code it give th info: "Palm ZLib adaptation Copyright 2000, Tom Zerucha, [email protected]".

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Registered: Dec 2000
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See

<http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/>

for more subsequent info. I removed zlib from my system and was still able to compress with pz. I don't recall where I got it myself. Reading the url from my prior post on this thread yields the info that pz uses zlib, but I cannot explain further.

Dale

Registered: Dec 2000
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The post prior to my most recent post is correct. JackBack installs zlib as well for compression of backups.

Dale

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ZLib & JackBack

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Originally posted by samily
The post prior to my most recent post is correct. JackBack installs zlib as well for compression of backups.

Dale

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I do have JackBack on my VPL. That makes sense. Thanks.