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All files under this contrib directory are UNSUPPORTED. There were
provided by users of zlib and were not tested by the authors of zlib.
Use at your own risk. Please contact the authors of the contributions
for help about these, not the zlib authors. Thanks.


ada/        by Dmitriy Anisimkov <[e-mail]>
        Support for Ada
        See http://zlib-ada.sourceforge.net/

amd64/      by Mikhail Teterin <[e-mail]>
        asm code for AMD64
        See patch at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/96393

asm686/     by Brian Raiter <[e-mail]>
        asm code for Pentium and PPro/PII, using the AT&T (GNU as) syntax
        See http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/assembly.html

blast/      by Mark Adler <[e-mail]>
        Decompressor for output of PKWare Data Compression Library (DCL)

delphi/     by Cosmin Truta <[e-mail]>
        Support for Delphi and C++ Builder

dotzlib/    by Henrik Ravn <[e-mail]>
        Support for Microsoft .Net and Visual C++ .Net

gcc_gvmat64/by Gilles Vollant <[e-mail]>
        GCC Version of x86 64-bit (AMD64 and Intel EM64t) code for x64
        assembler to replace longest_match() and inflate_fast()

infback9/   by Mark Adler <[e-mail]>
        Unsupported diffs to infback to decode the deflate64 format

inflate86/  by Chris Anderson <[e-mail]>
        Tuned x86 gcc asm code to replace inflate_fast()

iostream/   by Kevin Ruland <[e-mail]>
        A C++ I/O streams interface to the zlib gz* functions

iostream2/  by Tyge Løvset <[e-mail]>
        Another C++ I/O streams interface

iostream3/  by Ludwig Schwardt <[e-mail]>
            and Kevin Ruland <[e-mail]>
        Yet another C++ I/O streams interface

masmx64/    by Gilles Vollant <[e-mail]>
        x86 64-bit (AMD64 and Intel EM64t) code for x64 assembler to
        replace longest_match() and inflate_fast(),  also masm x86
        64-bits translation of Chris Anderson inflate_fast()

masmx86/    by Gilles Vollant <[e-mail]>
        x86 asm code to replace longest_match() and inflate_fast(),
        for Visual C++ and MASM (32 bits).
        Based on Brian Raiter (asm686) and Chris Anderson (inflate86)

minizip/    by Gilles Vollant <[e-mail]>
        Mini zip and unzip based on zlib
        Includes Zip64 support by Mathias Svensson <[e-mail]>
        See http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/unzip.html

pascal/     by Bob Dellaca <[e-mail]> et al.
        Support for Pascal

puff/       by Mark Adler <[e-mail]>
        Small, low memory usage inflate.  Also serves to provide an
        unambiguous description of the deflate format.

testzlib/   by Gilles Vollant <[e-mail]>
        Example of the use of zlib

untgz/      by Pedro A. Aranda Gutierrez <[e-mail]>
        A very simple tar.gz file extractor using zlib

vstudio/    by Gilles Vollant <[e-mail]>
        Building a minizip-enhanced zlib with Microsoft Visual Studio