zip folders support

[Alexander Shabanov]

Good day,

First of all: big thank you for your great wine!

Several days ago I made a post on the wine groups:
> Does anyone tried to use zip folders support on wine? Is is possible?
> I tried to copy zipfldr.dll and register it, but it does not work.
> Since I am a developer I would try to do it. Could you please suggest
> a point to start? As far as I know the interfaces of zipfldr.dll are
> not documented, so it will not be simple task.

I would like to ask you about an interfaces of zip folder dynamic
library - if they're known I would implement zip folders support.
It was suggested to ask someone from wine development team to get more
information about that.
Please, take a look to the discussion in the wine group about that:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine/browse_thread/...
If you have an information about zip folders please let me know.
btw: maybe an implementation of the such support is prohibited on
Linux due to some restrictions with LZW algorithm? Or maybe Microsoft
did not care about documenting this library? Unfortunately I am not
found any information about this library in MSDN in the topics for
developers.

Thanks in advance and kind regards,
    Alexander Shabanov

[Stefan Dösinger]

> I would like to ask you about an interfaces of zip folder dynamic
> library - if they're known I would implement zip folders support.
> It was suggested to ask someone from wine development team to get more
> information about that.
> Please, take a look to the discussion in the wine group about that:
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine/browse_thread
> /thread/1b6f661308400d96/?hl=en# If you have an information about zip
> folders please let me know.
> btw: maybe an implementation of the such support is prohibited on
> Linux due to some restrictions with LZW algorithm? Or maybe Microsoft
> did not care about documenting this library? Unfortunately I am not
> found any information about this library in MSDN in the topics for
> developers.

Shouldn't such a functionality be implemented somewhere in 
Linux/BSD/MacOS/Solaris(like a FUSE filesystem)? If the os can mount zip 
files wine apps can use it too. Of course if some application uses zip 
folders directly then we need that implemented in wine.

As for the algorithms, I think wine can just call zlib.