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Zlib module with sync methods backport from 0.11.12 node sources.
Zlib synchronous methods has been pushed to node 0.11.12. This library is based on the official node zlib code from 0.10.31 release. The code has been slightly modified to expose the following methods.
You can find project documentation at https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/v0.11.12/doc/api/zlib.markdown
Pay attention that options argument object and zlib.params have not been backported.
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Zlib module with sync methods backport from 0.11.12 node sources.
The npm package node-zlib-backport receives a total of 1 weekly downloads. As such, node-zlib-backport popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that node-zlib-backport demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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