Mark system compression support non-experimental

[wimlib] / doc / man1 / wimlib-imagex-apply.1

diff --git a/doc/man1/wimlib-imagex-apply.1 b/doc/man1/wimlib-imagex-apply.1
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--- a/doc/man1/wimlib-imagex-apply.1
+++ b/doc/man1/wimlib-imagex-apply.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH WIMLIB-IMAGEX "1" "February 2015" "wimlib 1.8.0" "User Commands"
+.TH WIMLIB-IMAGEX "1" "August 2015" "wimlib 1.8.2" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 wimlib-imagex-apply \- Extract one image, or all images, from a WIM archive
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -347,9 +347,9 @@ form.
 .TP
 \fB--wimboot\fR
 Windows only: Instead of extracting the files themselves, extract "pointer
-files" back to the WIM archive.  This can result in significant space savings.
+files" back to the WIM archive(s).  This can result in significant space savings.
 However, it comes at several potential costs, such as not being able to delete
-the WIM archive and possibly having slower access to files.  See Microsoft's
+the WIM archive(s) and possibly having slower access to files.  See Microsoft's
 documentation for "WIMBoot" for more information.
 .IP ""
 If it exists, the [PrepopulateList] section of the file
@@ -387,6 +387,22 @@ WIM files that use XPRESS chunks of size 8192, 16384, and 32768, or LZX chunks
 of size 32768, in addition to the default XPRESS chunks of size 4096 that are
 created when \fBwimlib-imagex capture\fR is run with the \fB--wimboot\fR
 option.
+.TP
+\fB--compact\fR=\fIFORMAT\fR
+Windows-only: compress the extracted files using System Compression, when
+possible.  This only works on either Windows 10 or later, or on an older Windows
+to which Microsoft's wofadk.sys driver has been added.  Several different
+compression formats may be used with System Compression, and one must be
+specified as \fIFORMAT\fR.  The choices are: xpress4k, xpress8k, xpress16k, and
+lzx.
+.IP ""
+Exclusions are handled in the same way as with the \fB--wimboot\fR option.
+That is: if it exists, the [PrepopulateList] section of the file
+\\Windows\\System32\\WimBootCompress.ini in the WIM image will be read, and
+files matching any of the patterns in this section will not be compressed.
+In addition, wimlib has a hardcoded list of files for which it knows, for
+compatibility with the Windows bootloader, to override the requested compression
+format.
 .SH NOTES
 \fIData integrity\fR:  WIM files include SHA1 message digests for file data.
 \fBwimlib-imagex apply\fR calculates the SHA1 message digest of every file