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[sentient06]

Hello, I'm new to the forum, although I've been reading stuff from here for quite some time in silence. I just didn't have much to comment on.

But now, I'm considering a few projects to get my hands dirty developing for classic Mac OS, but there are a few hurdles.

For example, I need SHA-1 implementation, and ZLIB. I also need to use regular expressions, and to learn how to traverse directories, create, hide, show and delete files, which, I assume, are part of the toolbox.

I don't want to reinvent the wheel and go on a quest to develop a ZLIB library, which sounds overkill. I assume someone already did these things. Does anyone know about implementations of things like that, or where to find it, or which keywords could help me locating implementations like that on the web?

So, that's basically me surveying the options and trying to figure out how much of a learning curve and how much extra work I will have to deal with.

Thanks!