INTRODUCTION
-This is wimlib version 1.6.3 (May 2014). wimlib is a C library for
+This is wimlib version 1.7.0-BETA (May 2014). wimlib is a C library for
creating, modifying, extracting, and mounting files in the Windows Imaging
Format (WIM files). These files are normally created using the ImageX
(imagex.exe) or Dism (Dism.exe) utilities on Windows, but wimlib is distributed
For both platforms the code for NTFS capture and extraction is complete enough
that it is possible to apply an image from the "install.wim" contained in recent
-Windows installation media (Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8) directly to a NTFS
+Windows installation media (Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8) directly to an NTFS
filesystem, and then boot Windows from it after preparing the Boot Configuration
Data. In addition, a Windows installation can be captured (or backed up) into a
WIM file, and then re-applied later.
from libcrypto (part of OpenSSL). The default is to use libcrypto if it
is found on the system.
---enable-xattr, --disable-xattr
- Enable or disable support for the extended-attributes interface to NTFS
- alternate data streams in mounted WIMs. To support these, wimlib
- requires that the setxattr() function and the attr/xattr.h header are
- available. The default is to autodetect whether support is possible.
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--disable-multithreaded-compression
By default, data will be compressed using multiple threads when writing
a WIM, unless only 1 processor is detected. Specify this option to