The zip-archive library provides functions for creating, modifying, and extracting files from zip archives. The zip archive format is documented in http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT. Certain simplifying assumptions are made about the zip archives: in particular, there is no support for strong encryption, zip files that span multiple disks, ZIP64, OS-specific file attributes, or compression methods other than Deflate. However, the library should be able to read the most common zip archives, and the archives it produces should be readable by all standard unzip programs.