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diff --git a/libjava/java/util/zip/Deflater.java b/libjava/java/util/zip/Deflater.java
index d11370f..ce3dc0ba 100644
--- a/libjava/java/util/zip/Deflater.java
+++ b/libjava/java/util/zip/Deflater.java
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
any later version.
-
+
GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
@@ -51,15 +51,41 @@ import gnu.gcj.RawData;
public class Deflater
{
+ /**
+ * The best and slowest compression level. This tries to find very
+ * long and distant string repetitions.
+ */
public static final int BEST_COMPRESSION = 9;
+ /**
+ * The worst but fastest compression level.
+ */
public static final int BEST_SPEED = 1;
+ /**
+ * The default compression level.
+ */
public static final int DEFAULT_COMPRESSION = -1;
+ /**
+ * This level won't compress at all but output uncompressed blocks.
+ */
public static final int NO_COMPRESSION = 0;
+ /**
+ * The default strategy.
+ */
public static final int DEFAULT_STRATEGY = 0;
public static final int FILTERED = 1;
+
+ /**
+ * This strategy will not look for string repetitions at all. It
+ * only encodes with Huffman trees (which means, that more common
+ * characters get a smaller encoding.
+ */
public static final int HUFFMAN_ONLY = 2;
+ /**
+ * The compression method. This is the only method supported so far.
+ * There is no need to use this constant at all.
+ */
public static final int DEFLATED = 8;
public int deflate (byte[] buf)