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diff --git a/tcllib/modules/zip/encode.man b/tcllib/modules/zip/encode.man new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5eb908e --- /dev/null +++ b/tcllib/modules/zip/encode.man @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +[vset VERSION 0.4] +[comment {-*- tcl -*- doctools manpage}] +[manpage_begin zipfile::encode n [vset VERSION]] +[keywords compression zip] +[copyright {2008-2009 Andreas Kupries}] +[moddesc {Zip archive handling}] +[titledesc {Generation of zip archives}] +[category File] +[require Tcl 8.4] +[require logger] +[require Trf] +[require crc32] +[require snit] +[require zlibtcl] +[require fileutil] +[require zipfile::encode [opt [vset VERSION]]] +[description] +[para] + +This package provides a class for the generation of zip archives. + +[section {Class API}] + +[list_begin definitions] +[call [cmd ::zipfile::encode] [opt [arg objectName]]] + +The class command constructs encoder instances, i.e. objects. The +result of the command is the fully-qualified name of the instance +command. + +[para] + +If no [arg objectName] is specified the class will generate and use an +automatic name. If the [arg objectName] was specified, but is not +fully qualified the command will be created in the current namespace. + +[list_end] + +[section {Instance API}] + +[list_begin definitions] + +[comment ---------------------------------------------------------------------] +[call [cmd <encoder>] [method comment:] [arg text]] + +This method specifies the text of the global comment for the archive. + +The result of the method is the empty string. + +In case of multiple calls to this method for the same encoder the data +from the last call prevails over all previous texts. + +[comment ---------------------------------------------------------------------] +[call [cmd <encoder>] [method file:] [arg dst] [arg owned] [arg src] \ + [opt [arg noCompress]]] + +This method adds a new file to the archive. + +The contents of the file are found in the filesystem at [arg src], and +will be stored in the archive under path [arg dst]. + +If the file is declared as [arg owned] by the archive the original +file will be deleted when the archive is constructed and written. + +If [arg noCompress] is set to [const true] the file will not be +compressed on writing. Otherwise (the default) the file is compressed +if it is advantageous. + +The result of the method is an empty string. + +[comment ---------------------------------------------------------------------] +[call [cmd <encoder>] [method write] [arg archive]] + +This method takes the global comment and all added files, encodes them +as a zip archive and stores the result at path [arg archive] in the +filesystem. + +All added files which were owned by the archive are deleted at this +point. + +On the issue of ordering, the files are added to the archive in the +same order as they were specified via [method file:]. [emph Note] that +this behaviour is new for version 0.4 and higher. Before 0.4 no +specific order was documented. It was lexicographically sorted. The +change was made to support [cmd zip]-based file formats which require +a specific order of files in the archive, for example [file .epub]. + +[list_end] + +[vset CATEGORY zipfile] +[include ../doctools2base/include/feedback.inc] +[manpage_end] |