zlib 1.2.2 is a general purpose data compression library. All the code is thread safe. The data format used by the zlib library is described by RFCs (Request for Comments) 1950 to 1952 in the files http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1950.txt (zlib format), rfc1951.txt (deflate format) and rfc1952.txt (gzip format). These documents are also available in other formats from ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/zdoc-index.html
Lossless Data Compression Toolkit Version 1.1 of the lossless data compression toolkit by Nico deVries. The C sources in this toolkit include an LZW compressor, AR002 archiver, a PPM like compressor using arithmetic compression, Huffman compressor, splay tree program, and LZRW1. Quite a variety.
