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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libzlib.tex b/Doc/lib/libzlib.tex index bdee0a0..a13573f 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libzlib.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libzlib.tex @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -% XXX The module has been extended (by Jeremy) but this documentation -% hasn't been updated completely. +% XXX The module has been extended (by Jeremy and Andrew) but this +% documentation is incorrect in some cases. \section{\module{zlib} --- - Compression library compatible with \program{gzip}.} + Compression library compatible with \program{gzip}} \declaremodule{builtin}{zlib} \modulesynopsis{Low-level interface to compression and decompression @@ -12,9 +12,14 @@ routines compatible with \program{gzip}.} For applications that require data compression, the functions in this module allow compression and decompression, using the zlib library. The zlib library has its own home page at -\url{http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/}. Version 1.0.4 is the -most recent version as of December, 1997; use a later version if one -is available. +\url{http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/}. Version 1.1.3 is the +most recent version as of April 199; use a later version if one +is available. There are known incompatibilities between the Python +module and earlier versions of the zlib library. + +The documentation for this module is woefully out of date. In some +cases, the doc strings have been updated more recently. In other +cases, they are both stale. The available exception and functions in this module are: |