Golang library for both compressing and decompressing data in the PKWare Data Compression Library (DCL) compressed format, otherwise known as "explode" and "implode" which differ from PKZIP.

Based on:

blast.c in ZLIB written by Mark Adler https://github.com/madler/zlib/blob/master/contrib/blast/blast.c

implode.c Ladislav Zezula 2003 https://github.com/ladislav-zezula/StormLib/blob/master/src/pklib/implode.c

go get github.com/JoshVarga/blast

Compress ("implode") data using the PKWARE DCL "implode" method
Decompress ("explode") data that has been compressed using PKWARE DCL "implode" method

func ExampleNewWriter() {
	var b bytes.Buffer
	w := blast.NewWriter(&b, blast.Binary, blast.DictionarySize1024)
	w.Write([]byte("AIAIAIAIAIAIA"))
	w.Close()
	fmt.Println(b.Bytes())
	// Output: [0 4 130 36 37 143 128 127]
}

func ExampleNewReader() {
	buff := []byte{0, 4, 130, 36, 37, 143, 128, 127}
	b := bytes.NewReader(buff)
	r, err := blast.NewReader(b)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	io.Copy(os.Stdout, r)
	// Output: AIAIAIAIAIAIA
	r.Close()
}

Copyright (c) 2018 Josh Varga

Explode: Original C version: Copyright (C) 2003, 2012, 2013 Mark Adler, version 1.3, 24 Aug 2013

Implode: Original C version: Copyright (c) Ladislav Zezula 2003

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions:

1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required.
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