Zip -

# module Zip

## Overview

The Zip module contains readers and writers of the zip file format, described at PKWARE's site.

### Reading zip files

Two types are provided to read from zip files:

- `Zip::File`: can read zip entries from a `File` or from an `IO::Memory` and provides random read access to its entries.
- `Zip::Reader`: can only read zip entries sequentially from any `IO`.

`Zip::File` is the preferred method to read zip files if you can provide a `File`, because it's a bit more flexible and provides more complete information for zip entries (such as comments).

When reading zip files, CRC32 checksum values are automatically verified when finishing reading an entry, and `Zip::Error` will be raised if the computed CRC32 checksum does not match.

### Writer zip files

Use `Zip::Writer`, which writes zip entries sequentially to any `IO`.

NOTE only compression methods 0 (STORED) and 8 (DEFLATED) are supported. Additionally, ZIP64 is not yet supported.

## Defined in:

## Constant Summary

CENTRAL_DIRECTORY_HEADER_SIGNATURE = `33639248`
END_OF_CENTRAL_DIRECTORY_HEADER_SIGNATURE = `101010256`
VERSION = `20_u16`