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+The Archive::Zip module allows a Perl program to create, manipulate,
+read, and write Zip archive files.
+
+Zip archives can be created, or you can read from existing zip files.
+Once created, they can be written to files, streams, or strings.
+
+Members can be added, removed, extracted, replaced, rearranged, and
+enumerated. They can also be renamed or have their dates, comments, or
+other attributes queried or modified. Their data can be compressed or
+uncompressed as needed. Members can be created from members in existing
+Zip files, or from existing directories, files, or strings.
+
+This module uses the Compress::Zlib library to read and write the
+compressed streams inside the files.
+
+Examples and helper libraries are given to show how:
+ * zip files can be written to strings
+ * zip files can be written in chunks to arbitrary functions
+
+Documentation will be installed as man pages for:
+ Archive::Zip
+ Archive::Zip::FAQ
+ Archive::Zip::Tree
+ Archive::Zip::MemberRead
+
+Copyright (c) 2000-2003 Ned Konz. All rights reserved. This program is free
+software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms
+as Perl itself.